Adsit v. Catskill Electric Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Trial Term, Greene County. Action by Wallace M. Adsit and another, as administrators, etc., of Lewis G. Adsit, deceased, against the Catskill Electric Railway Company. From, a judgment for plaintiffs and an order denying its motion dor a new trial on the.minutes, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs’ intestate in his lifetime to recover damages for injuries to a horse owned by him. Defendant is a street surface railroad corporation engaged in the transportation of passengers by trolley cars. On the 6th day of February, 1902, the intestate drove a horse attached to a sleigh upon the northerly end of a highway bridge which consists of three spans, aggregating 437 feet in length, just before or about the time that one of defendant’s cars came, upon the southerly end of said bridge. The bridge is a narrow one. The tracks of the defendant’s railroad…
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