Fox v. Mayor of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and another, from a judgment of the< Supreme Court in favor of tire plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of June, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a.trial at the New York Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of June, 1895, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the…
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Appeal by the defendants, The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York and another, from a judgment of the< Supreme Court in favor of tire plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of June, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a.trial at the New York Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of June, 1895, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Barrett, J.:
The plaintiff was injured some time in the early part of the evening of January 24, 1890, while alighting from a train at the Brooklyn platform of the New York and Brooklyn bridge. She was on the rear end of the last car, and, while attempting to step from the car to the' platform fell between the two and sustained serious injuries. The case was before the late General Term of this department on a former appeal (Fox v. The Mayor, 70 Hun, 181), when a judgment for the plaintiff was reversed, the court holding that in view of the special circumstances there disclosed, the mere…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lafflin v. . Buffalo Southwestern R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Marks v. Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Fox v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Hanrahan v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1889
- Fogassi v. New York Cent. & H. R. RailroadNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1895
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