Legal Opinion

Faurot v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad

New York City Court

Decided November 15, 1895Published

Appeal from judgment'in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a verdict, and from order denying motion for a new trial1.

1Opinion of the Court

Van Wyok, J., It can be-fairly inferred from tlie evidence herein that, defendant’s caps run east and west on Halsey street,1 the track of the eastward-bound cars hping on the south side of that-street and that of the westward-bound cars being on the- north side thereof, and that Howard avenue crosses this street at right angles; that plaintiff, .a lady of .fifty-eight years, was walking along the westerly side of Howard avenue in a southerly direction; when she reached the curb of the northerly side of Halsey street she paused. till a westerly-bound. car,passed her about 141 feet, and then…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Young v. Atlantic Avenue RailroadNew York City Court · 1894

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