Teich v. Ruppert
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Jacob Ruppert, 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 23d day of March, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 24th day of March, 1921, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
By its verdict the jury accepted the version of the circumstances attending the accident in question, as given by plaintiff and his witnesses. Plaintiff on the afternoon of March 21, 1919, was lawfully and properly on the west side of Eleventh avenue near its intersection with West Fifty-second street, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, when he heard a cry for help. He ran across the avenue to the east side, in the middle of the block between Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets, where a man was crushed between two automobile trucks. The more northerly of the trucks…
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