Legal Opinion
Servoss v. City of Amsterdam
New York County Courts
Decided October 15, 1909Published
Appeal from a judgment rendered in a justice’s court in favor of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment for fifty dollars damages and nine dollars and eighty cents costs, in all fifty-nine dollars and eighty cents, rendered in justice’s court upon the verdict of a jury.
Plaintiff was driving across a bridge in the defendant city with a horse weighing about 1,000 pounds, and in a cutter. The right fore leg of the horse went through a plank in the bridge, and the horse was injured. At the time of the accident the horse was walking. The date was January 16, 1909, and there were a little snow-and ice on the bridge: The bridge was broad enough for conveyances to pass…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Pomfrey v. . Village of Saratoga SpringsNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- McCarthy v. . the City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Todd v. . City of TroyNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Goodfellow v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1885
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