Delaney v. Yonkers Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Nicholas Delaney, from a judgment of-the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 21st day of May, 1896, upon the dismissal of his complaint directed by the court at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Westchester.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This is an action of negligence in which the plaintiff was non-suited. It grows out of a collision which occurred on the 2d day of September, 1892, on the highway known as Yonkers avenue, connecting the cities of Yonkers and Mount Vernon, between an electric trolley car belonging to the defendant and a two-horse truck belonging to the plaintiff, which was "employed at the time as a stage for the conveyance of passengers. A contractor was engaged in repairing Yonkers avenue, in sections of 400 feet at a time, so that any particular section which he was at work upon was…
2Cited by1 opinion
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