Tooker v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George A. Tooker, 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 20th day of December, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for six cents, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of December, 1901, denying the plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff recovered a verdict of six cents damages for injuries to his finger, sustained by the catching of his finger ring on the handle bar of one of the defendant’s trolley cars as he was alighting from the car, which had stopped, and started at the time with a sudden jerk. The evidence amply justified a finding of negligence on the part of the defendant in the management of the car, and of the absence of contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. The proof demonstrated that the wound was a painful one, which had to be dressed by a physician twenty or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Saperstone v. Rochester Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Hurley v. Metropolitan St. Ry. Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903