Saffer v. Dry-Dock, E. B. & B. Railroad
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, New York county. Action by Morris Saffer against the Dry-Dock, East Broadway & Battery Railroad Company, for personal injury received by plaintiff on alighting from one of defendant’s horse-cars. Plaintiff obtained judgment. Defendant appeals from the judgment and from the order denying its motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Daniels, I,
The verdict was recovered for the damages considered by the jury to have been sustained by the plaintiff for a personal injury on the 3d of January, 1887. He was proceeding westerly on one of the cars of the defendant, which he desired to leave at or near the corner of Greenwich and Desbrosses streets, and signalled the conductor to stop the car for that object. The conductor pulled the bell-rope, and the plaintiff went to the rear platform to leave the car. On his behalf it was stated by himself, as a witness on the trial, that while he was standing on the step, expecting the car…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Solomon v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
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