Turner v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, ■from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, ■entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 30th •day of November, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25tli day of November, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
On July 14, 1896, Walter Turner was riding a horse on Seventh avenue, and turned on to the defendant’s track to pass around a. wagon standing by the curb. As he reached the track the horse was struck by a car of the defendant coming up from behind;, Turner was thrown off and run over and his skull was fractured. He was taken to the hospital, where he died on July nineteenth. The plaintiff, his widow, obtained letters of administration and recovered judgment, from which this appeal is taken.
There was evidence sufficient to require the court to submit to the jury the questions…
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