Veeldorano v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Stanzy Yeeldorano, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Bronx on the 4th day of January, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 30th day of December, 1918, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action is one for negligence. The plaintiff was the driver of a water wagon in the department of street cleaning. He was proceeding west upon One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street towards the intersection with Mott avenue. Mott avenue was considerably wider at this point than it was further north. There was a plaza there. Mott avenue to the south went to the river and was little used; to the north it was much used. There was a pole upon which the railroad wires were strung in One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street to the eastern part of this plaza. It was about forty-five feet east…
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