Bolte v. Third Avenue R. Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from trial term, New York county. Action .by Christopher Bolte against the Third Avenue Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRumsey, J.
The action was brought to recover for injuries received by the plaintiff on the 12th day of December, 1895, when *1039lie was driving one of the horse ears of the Central Crosstown Railroad Company, at a point where the track of that road crosses the Third Avenue Railroad at Ninth street. His story, substantially, was that while he was driving along Ninth street, going west, he had stopped on the east side of Third avenue to let off some passengers. As his car stood there, he saw a Third Avenue car coming down the ■ street, which was stopped a short distance above the place where the plaintiff…
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