Schmidt v. Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Cbney Island and Brooklyn Kail: road Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the count-y of Kings on the 1st day of May, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of May, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff has recovered a verdict of $15,000 against the defendant for negligently causing the death of her husband, Clifford A. Schmidt, who was a passenger on one of its electric trolley cars on the way from Coney Island to Brooklyn on the afternoon of the 16th day of May, 1895. The motive power on the defendant’s line is applied by what is known as the center-post system, the wires, through which the electric current is conveyed to the cars being supported by posts set between the two tracks. At the time of the accident Mr. Schmidt was seated at the end of the…
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