Meyer v. Hart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louis Meyer, as administrator, etc., of Adolphina Meyer, deceased, 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 22d day of April, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office-on the 1st day of April, 1897, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff, as administrator, etc., of his deceased wife, sues to-recover damages resulting from her death, occasioned by the negligence of the defendant. It becomes unnecessary to detail at any length the facts establishing such negligence, as the jury rendered a-verdict for the plaintiff for $150. It is sufficient to say that the-deceased was standing on a sidewalk, in-the city of Brooklyn, when two horses of the defendant were passing by. One of them became-frightened through its careless harnessing, or the negligent conduct-of the driver, bolted, jumped on the sidewalk,…
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