Frankfort v. Manhattan Railway Co.
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action by Sarah Frankfort against the Manhattan Railway Company for personal injuries. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPryor, J.
The plaintiff has recovered a verdict of $5,000 for an injury asserted to be the effect of the defendant’s negligence. Whether that injury was the cause of the physical and mental maladies with which she claims to be afflicted, and whether those maladies be incurable, is enveloped in obscurity, and contingent upon the inferences of experts. The surgeon by whom the plaintiff was treated made light of the hurt, and attributed the ailments of which she subsequently complained not at all to the accident, while the surgeon produced on her behalf at the trial represented her condition as…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. FalveyIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Ferguson v. . HubbellNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- People v. . HarrisNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Reynolds v. . RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- In Re the Probate of the Will of SnellingNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
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- McCabe v. Third Avenue RailroadAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1898