Baber v. Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action by George Baber against the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Bailroad Company for loss of services of plaintiff’s son. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from ¡an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGiegerich, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for loss of the services of his son, alleged to have been sustained in consequence of the negligence of the servants of the defendant company. The answer was a general denial.
On the evening of April 9, 1891, George L. Baber, a son of the plaintiff, and who was then 11 years of age, was on Seventh avenue, near Twenty-Fourth street, selling newspapers. As a car of the de- ' fendant approached, a. passenger on the front platform of the car beckoned to the boy to bring him a newspaper. The latter got upon the front platform after the car…
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