Plum v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street Railway 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 15th day of June, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,333.33, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s.office on the 15th day of June, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
The plaintiff in this action seeks to recover damages for personal injuries, sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendant, she being free from negligence contributing to the accident. She alleges in her complaint the fact of the incorporation of the defendant, its operation of a line of street surface railroad in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, and “ that at said city and at or near the corner of Sixty-first street and Lexington avenue, New York, and on or about August 1st, 1899, the defendant invited and received upon one of its cars plaintiff as a…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Coatsworth v. Lehigh Valley Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Wright v. . DelafieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Quin v. . LloydNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Day v. . Town of New LotsNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Dochtermann v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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- Archibald v. SanatoriumNew York Supreme Court · 1923