Adams v. New York City Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the-defendant, the New York City 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 7th day of March, 1906, upon the verdict of a jjury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clferk’s office on the 7th day of March, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new1 trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff was a passenger on a north-bound car on defendant’s Lexington avenue line. By his complaint he alleges'that after having notified the conductor that he desired- to . alight at Forty^ second, street, he proceeded to the rear platform fpr the purpose of so doing; and that after the car had been slowed down at that point it gave a sudden- and violent start, which threw him from the platform to the street. The plaintiff testified that the car did not stop at the south side of Forty-second street, b.ut simply slowed down to such an extent that several passengers…
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