Tait v. Buffalo Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Delia M. Tait, as administratrix, etc., of William Tait, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 1st day of.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Delia M. Tait, as administratrix, etc., of William Tait, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 1st day of. May, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order bearing date the 29th day of January, 1900, and entered in said clerk’s office denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:. Between the hours of seven and eight o’clock in the morning of the 16th day of May, 1899, plaintiff’s intestate, while riding'in a vehicle on Exchange street in the city of Buffalo, was thrown therefrom by a collision with one of defendant’s cars, thereby sustaining-injuries from which it is claimed he died on the sixteenth day of the following October. The action is brought to' recover the damages sustained by the widow and children. Decedent was familiar with the locality, and had taken his horse into a blacksmith shop to be shod and left his wagon under a viaduct which is…
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