Viemeister v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Edmund C. Viemeister, from a judgment-of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 31st day of January, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entere'd in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of January, 1903, denying the-plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J. :
The plaintiff resides at Winfield in the borough of Queens. On the 21st day of September, 1900, he boarded one.of the defendant’s-elevated trains on the Myrtle avenue line in the borough of Brooklyn, to go to his home, at about six o’clock in the afternoon. He was required to transfer at the Vanderbilt avenue station to a Ridgewood train. The platform at that station was crowded, and when the Ridgewood train came it was also crowded. Nevertheless a few more could manage to get upon the train, and one of the-defendant’s guards standing upon the platform opened the…
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- McGearty v. Manhattan Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Werle v. . Long Island Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Dawson v. Trustees of New York & Brooklyn BridgeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Merwin v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1888
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- Kohm v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905