Morrison v. Long Island Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
' Appeal by the defendant, The Long Island 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 10th day of April, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Kings County Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day- of April, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a -new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J.:
■ The' plaintiff, while standing upon Atlantic avenue in the city of Brooklyn, was struck in the eye with a cinder which he-alleged was negligently permitted to escape from an engine upon the defendant’s road. The result of the injury was the loss of the eye.'
The accident occurred on January 9, 1894, between three and four o’clock in the afternoon. Immediately .after the accident plaintiff went to a drug store, but nothing appears to have been there -done for him. He then went to his home, and during the evening bathed his eye with hot water and Pond’s Extract. He did not…
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