Dise v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendant from an affirmance by the G-eneral Term of the City Court of a judgment in favor of plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
According to the facts as found by the jury the plaintiff, at about 8 o’clock on the evening.of October 21, 1895, was driving a horse drawing a single truck westward along Bleecker street. As he approached Broadway he looked up and down that thoroughfare and saw one of defendant’s cars about a block away coming up town, and another about 150 feet away coming down town. Finding the roadway clear the plaintiff undertook to cross Broadway from east to west. He got over the easterly track in safety, but while crossing the westerly track the south-bound car struck his truck, throwing him off,…
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