Mcmahon v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.

The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $300; the defendant moved to set aside said verdict and for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was contrary to law. The action is brought to recover damages for injuries sustained from an act of a fellow passenger on one of the defendant’s cars on the evening of the 31st day of December, 1905. From the evidence adduced by plaintiff upon the trial it appeared that the plaintiff, a young woman, with several companions, boarded one of the defendant’s cars traveling in a southerly direction; that she *243was seated…