Bernstein v. Empire Bridge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant,. The Empire Bridge 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 23d day of June, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,750, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of July, 1910, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The plaintiff’s recovery is for serious injuries inflicted upon her by the alleged negligence of the defendant in the daytime in June, 1907, in one of the public streets of the borough of Brooklyn. She was sitting on the curbstone with her feet in the gutter at the time, an older sister in charge of her being near by. A heavy truck of the defendant was being driven through the street at the time at considerable speed and in a very careless manner, and, coming in contact with one of the plaintiff’s feet, injured it so severely as to require its amputa*530tion. There was evidence,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Becker v. . KochNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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