Adams v. New York City Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the New York City 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 New York on the 19th day of July, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20tli day of June, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This case has been twice tried. The accident occurred on the 18th day of December, 1903. The plaintiff was a passenger on a north-bound Lexington avenue car. The complaint alleges “ that near the intersection of Forty-second street and said Lexington Avenue the plaintiff requested the conductor in charge of said car to stop the same at Forty-second street for the purpose of allowing the plaintiff to alight therefrom, arid that the said conductor thereupon signalled to the motorman in charge of said car to stop said car; that while the plaintiff was standing on the rear platform of…
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- Edall v. New England RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- Adams v. New York City Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Fisher v. Central Vermont Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- Fremont v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
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