Chase v. Jamestown Street Railway Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Cattaraugus county. , Action by Cora Chase against the Jamestown Street-Bailway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The action was fora personal injurysustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on one of the cars of the defendant, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendant in permitting the car to be out of repair. The car was an open one, with seats running across, and its floor extending over the wheels, which projected through the floor, and were guarded by sheet-iron boxes, or wheel-houses, as they were called, located mainly under the seat, but which projected slightly into the passage between the two seats. These guards were finished with a flange of the sheet-iron, extending around the…
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