Legare v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Railway Company of New York City, 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 20th day of Hovember, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from an order,, entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of December, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
There can be little doubt, I think, that if the evidence of the deceased’s brother is credible, the verdict of this jury was right and should be affirmed. This witness with the deceased started to cross the street through which the defendant operated its railroad. He testified that as he started to cross he looked up and down the street and saw coming from the east the car that ran over the deceased; that when he saw the car it was about two hundred feet distant; that by the time he got to the middle of the street the car had come within seventy-five feet, and then the two boys…
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