Keenan v. Brooklyn City Railroad

This action was brought by plaintiff, as. administrator, to recover damages sustained by the next of kin of James Keenan, who was killed by being run over by one of defendant’s electric cars. The verdict for plaintiff was. $5,000, and from the judgment entered thereupon and the order denying motion for new trial on the minutes, this-appeal is taken.

There is evidence which the jury was justified in believing,, and from which it can be fairly inferred, that about four-o’clock p. m. on May 12, 1893, James Keenan, a boy under-six years of age, living on the northeast corner of Eighteenth, street…