Griffith v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff asks, upon a reserved motion after trial and verdict, to dismiss the complaint and set aside the verdict for $5,000, which the jury gave the plaintiff by assessment of damages and special findings of fact, all in plaintiff’s favor.

On the 17th of April, 1899, the. plaintiff, a boy about eight years of age, on a bright day, undertook to cross the tracks of the defendant near Ninety-fourth street, on Columbus avenue, in the city of New York, midway between the cross walks forming the northern boundary of Ninety-third street and the southern boundary of Ninety-fourth street, was…