Weber v. Buffalo Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph Weber, from a judgment of the Supreme "Court in favor of the defendant, dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint upon the merits, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 16th day of April, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered on a trial at a Trial Term in Erie county by direction of the court..
1Opinion of the Court
Green, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on the 12th day of October, 1891, by reason of the defendant’s negligence. The negligence imputed to the defendant is,, that a pile of planking and other materials were left unlighted and unguarded in the approach to a public bridge over the Erie canal in Main street, in the- city-of Buffalo, against which the plaintiffwhile going to a fire as a member of the fire department of the city, was driven. This unguarded pile was left in the condition it was on the night of the accident…
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