Adams v. New York City Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the-defendant, the New York City 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 7th day of March, 1906, upon the verdict of a jjury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clferk’s office on the 7th day of March, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new1 trial made upon the minutes.
1Dissent
McLaughlin, J. (dissenting):
The plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s north-bound Lexington avenue cars, which he took at Third street for the purpose of going to Forty-second street. The testimony offered by him tended to establish that as the car approached Fortieth street he notified the conductor that he desired to get off at Forty-second street; that the car as it approached Forty-second street slowed up; that he thereupon left his seat and went to the rear platform, preparatory to getting off; that on the south side of Forty-second street the car ran very slowly, and several…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Crow v. . Metropolitan Street Railway CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1903