Anderson v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court, eighth district, borough of Manhattan, after trial before a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtMacLean, J.
In this action to recover for personal injuries, it appears that the plaintiff, a helper upon an ice wagon, and the driver by whose side he was sitting, both servants of a common master, were driving easterly through Twenty-sixth street, with fifty-two hundred weight of ice, drawn by two horses. When they came to Eighth avenue, each saw a car belonging to the defendant approaching rapidly from the south, thirty feet below the south crossing, the plaintiff testified; more than 100 feet south of that crossing, as the driver testified. The horses were on a slow walk and so continued, but while…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hoag v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Hobson v. New York Condensed Milk Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Schulman v. Houston, W. S. & P. F. RailroadThe Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo · 1895
3Cited by1 opinion
- Denver City Tramway Co. v. NortonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905