Lofsten v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant^ The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of May, 1903, upon the verdict óf a jury for $100, and also-from an order entered in ¡said clerk’s office on the 12th day of May,, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a- new trial made upon, the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirsohbebg, P. J.:
The plaintiff has obtained a small verdict for personal injuries sustained in a collision with one of the defendant’s street cars at the intersection of Hoyt and Fulton streets in the borough of Brooklyn.. He left his home on the east side of Hoyt street at about twenty minutes past seven on the morning of - the accident, and when he reached Fulton street looked for cars in both directions before attempting to cross. He says that he saw the car which struck him coming slowly from the west, and that when'he left the curbstone to go across it was fifty feet distant. . The curb…
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- Moebus v. . HerrmannNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Wendell v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Kennedy v. Third Avenue RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Hicks v. Nassau Electric RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Lynch v. Third Avenue RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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