Williamson v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of February, 1900, upon the verdict- of a jury for $22,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of February, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J. :. The plaintiff was run' over by one of the defendant’s cars, in the borough of Brooklyn, on September 25, 1899, and so badly injured that he was compelled to suffer two amputations, the first removing the lower portion of the left leg at a point about three inches below the knee joint, and the second operation destroying the knee joint and all below it. This suit was brought to recover damages for the negligence of the defendant in inflicting such injury, and it resulted *400in a verdict for $22,500. The defendant complains of this" verdict as excessive, and also argues…
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