Williams v. New York & Queens County Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Eliza Williams, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 21st day of November, 1903, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Queens County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J. :
The plaintiff was nonsuited. Her evidence tended to show that while a passenger upon one of defendant’s open cars a fuse, used in connection with the electrical appliances, blew out, and a ■ blaze enveloped 'the front of the car. Many of the passengers shouted, and the plaintiff, standing up in her seat to ascertain the cause of the commotion, became frightened, and in the melee was pushed and . thrown from the car to the street- by which she sustained serious injuries. . The case presents facts so nearly similar to those disclosed in Dorff v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. (95…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Dorff v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
- Powell v. Hudson Valley Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
3Cited by1 opinion
- Baum v. New York & Queens County Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908