Connor v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of April, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of April, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made .upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries -alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence.
The plaintiff, on the 4th of August, 1899, then about fourteen years of age, was injured by a collision between one of defendant’s cars and a truck on which he was riding. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff, so far as it relates to the collision, tended to -show that the plaintiff sat on the rear of the truck, which was going in a northerly direction on defendant’s tracks, and while in this position, one of the defendant’s cars came up behind and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kellegher v. Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
3Cited by1 opinion
- Jones v. HoadleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906