Blaechinska v. Howard Mission & Home for Little Wanderers
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of tlxe General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made April 22, 1890, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlxe General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made April 22, 1890, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. The plaintiff, a married woman, brought this action to recover from the defendant, a charitable corporation, the damages that she claims to have sustained through its alleged negligence in maintaining a broken cover over a coal-hole in a public sidewalk, which caused her to fall and break her arm. The pleadings presented the…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
Upon the trial of this action the plaintiff testified that at the time she was injured she was living with her husband, a custom tailor, for whom she worked as a seamstress. She was then asked by her counsel: “ Were you in receipt of a salary from him ? ” And under objection answered: “Yes, I received a salary of five and six dollars a week, and I did all the housework and now I can’t do it and I must have help, I used to do very good tailoring, but I can’t do it now.” On her cross-examination she testified that she used the money thus earned by her for the children and the general support of…
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