Clinton v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the County Court of Kings county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 17th day of June, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $200, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office ón the 17th day of June, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.'
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J. :
The plaintiff was injured while attempting to board one of the defendant’s trolley cars on Sterling place, in the borough of Brooklyn, in the middle of the block between Classon and Washington avenues. The block is a long one, but at about the point where the plaintiff signaled the motorman to stop the car there is a station where the cars are accustomed to stop for the purpose of receiving passengers. The accident occurred at twenty minutes to seven o’clock on the morning of October first. The plaintiff testified that he gave the motorman the signal when the car was about…
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- Monroe v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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