Fahner 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 16th day of May, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $400, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of May, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff entered the station of the defendant’s elevated railroad at Fulton and Cleveland streets, East New York, paid his fare, and was about to pass out of the station for the purpose of taking a. *490car. In doing so he was obliged to pass through a doorway, in which the defendant maintained two swinging doors, these doors swinging in both directions, as was shown to be common in public places. These doors were of wood, about two feet six inches wide, and at a height of three feet ten inches from the floor were two glass panels, each about ten inches wide, with a wooden cleat…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Lafflin v. . Buffalo Southwestern R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
- McGrell v. Buffalo Office Building Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Ayers v. . Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Dwyer v. Hills Brothers Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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