Mauer 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 Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of January, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of January, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff is a woman seventy-eight years of age. She left her home on Furman avenue, borough of Brooklyn, in the afternoon and- walked down the right-hand side of the street in the direction of Broadway. Furman avenue does; not cross Broadway, but diagonally across that thoroughfare Sumpter street intérsects, so that in law thére is a street crossing, at which point the rights of pedestrians and defendant’s cars stand upon an equality. When the plaintiff reached the corner of Broadway and Furman avenue, *121according to her evidence, she looked and saw the defendant’s car…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Read v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
3Cited by1 opinion
- Dubose v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909