Mattes v. New York City Railway Co.

Plaintiff was the driver of a brewery wagon, and was making deliveries of beer on Second avenue. After stopping at Thirty-Ninth street, he crossed to the west side of the avenue, and drove south about a block and a half, which brought him to the middle ■of the block between Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Seventh streets. Desiring at this time to make a delivery on the east side of second avenue, at a saloon 60 feet north of Thirty-Seventh street, or about 40 feet south, on the other side of avenue, of his then immediate starting point, he drove diagonally across, heading his team southeasterly, and…