McGrane v. Flushing & College Point Electric Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Flushing and College Point Electric 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 Queens on the 8th day of June, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme.
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Appeal by the defendant, The Flushing and College Point Electric 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 Queens on the 8th day of June, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme. Court held in and for the county of Queens, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office nunc pro fame as of the 3d day of June, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made, upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The purpose of the action was to recover damages for personal ■injuries alleged to have been inflicted on the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was engaged in driving a. *178brewery wagon or truck of the Mutual Brewing Company. The premises of that company fronted on Second avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, in the village of College Point. In the evening of October 31, 1895, the plaintiff, returning from the city of New York, where he had taken a load of ale, entered upon the avenue at Ninth street, and drove upon the defendant’s railroad track on…
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