Weill v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 23d day of February, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the llth day of February, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
On May 22, 1910, defendant operated a steam ferry between St. George, S. I., and the borough of Manhattan. On that day plaintiff, with three other ladies, were occupants of a coach which was driven upon one of the ferryboats while lying in the slip at St. George. The team gangways were on the main deck and, for a portion of the distance, on either side of an inclosure in the center of the boat occupied by the engine, furnaces and boilers. Between this inclosure and the stern of the boat, and midway between the two gangways, was a coal hole or . chute, through which the necessary fuel…
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- Brugher v. . BuchtenkirchNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- Piper v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Mastin v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Dailey v. DistlerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
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