Stevens v. Union Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Railway Company of New York City, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of February, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for §15,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day. of February, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The action is to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband, who was killed opposite the entrance to the elevated railroad on One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street between Willis and Alexander avenues on the early morning of September 9, 1901, by an east-bound trolley car of the defendant as he was proceeding to the south side of the street after having alighted from a westbound car which stopped at that point for the purpose of transferring passengers to the elevated railroad.
Although the deceased, as testified, left the west-bound car before it had quite come to a stop,…
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