Still v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 28th day of March, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,100, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of April, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
On June 23, 1896, one of the open trolley cars on New Utrecht avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, ran into an express wagon which was crossing the defendant’s line at the intersection of Seventy-ninth street. According to the plaintiff’s testimony, he was a passenger on the front part of the mar, and was standing at the time of the collision, having risen to give place tó a lady on the seat immediately .behind the motorman. The shock, he says, threw him off toward the side of the street, and when he recovered consciousness he found himself, with another injured person,-in a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nolan v. . Brooklyn City Newtown R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
3Cited by1 opinion
- Brainard v. Nassau Electric RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899