Quinn 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 clei’k of the county of Kings on the 14th day of, November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day ■of November, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff in this action was seriously injured in his foot, warranting, it is claimed, amputation, while engaged in repairing cars for the defendant at its Flatbush avenue depot, in the borough of Brooklyn, on the 14th day of February, 1901. There is no substantial dispute about the accident, the principal questions relating ■to the defendant’s liability for the damages resulting from the accident under the admitted circumstances. It appears that a car standing in the depot, about 300 feet from Flatbush avenue, required what is known as a repair piece, which seems to be a…
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