Brauer v. New York City Interborough Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the New York City Interborough Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of April, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $25,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a statutory action to recover for the death of Paul Frederick Brauer, which was.caused by a collision between one of the defendant’s street cars going northerly on Aqueduct avenue, in the vicinity of Featherbed lane, in the borough of the Bronx, at about seven-thirty o’clock in the evening on the 3d day of December, 1906, and a wagon in which the decedent was riding. It was a dark night. Decedent was traveling in the same general direction that the car was going, and he was carrying no light on his wagon, as required by ordinance of the city. At the time of the collision…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. . Del VermoNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
3Cited by2 opinions
- Molino v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
- McConnell v. Thomas & Buckley Operating Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912