Kitchell v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the City Court of Brooklyn in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 27th day of October, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff, at that time a child seven years and one month old, was injured on September 17, 1893, on Myrtle avenue in the city ,of Brooklyn, by being struck "and knocked down by an electric car, operated by the defendant corporation. She had bqen a passenger, with her father and mother, on a Greenpoint car, going toward the city hall. The family lived on the corner of Schenck street and Myrtle avenue, and the car which brought them homeward stopped, in order to allow them to alight, at a point about fifty feet west of Schenck street. The father and the little girl…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stone v. Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
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