Hodgson v. Conklin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry A. Conklin, 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 17th day of October, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $375, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25tli day of October, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J. :
The plaintiff obtained a verdict in an action based on the negligence of the defendant. The specific charge was that the driver of a truck belonging to the defendant carelessly backed into the sidewalk of one of the public streets in New York, borough of Manhattan, and injured the plaintiff, a pedestrian on the sidewalk, who ivas at the time entirely free from blame. The case was carefully tried, and was submitted to the jury in an unexceptionable charge and to which no exception was taken.
The only question presented on the appeal is that there was not sufficient evidence as…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Seaman v. . KoehlerNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
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