Baldwin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 23d day of January, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of January, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury, and the only question presented upon this appeal is in reference to a refusal of the court to charge certain requests made by the defendant. The plaintiff was a married woman, living apart from her husband and gaining her own livelihood as a trained nurse. She was injured by one of the defendant’s cars, on which she was a passenger, starting before she had time to alight after the car had been stopped for that purpose, and the injury appears to have been of a permanent nature. While the plaintiff was confined at the…
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