Pierce v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
' Appeal by the defendant, the Metropolitan Street 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. 22d day of January, 1897, upon the verdict of' a jury, and also .from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of February, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes..
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J. :
The action was brought to recover damages which the plaintiff ■alleged she suffered by being thrown' from one of the cars of the ■defendant’s railway as she was alighting from it. At the trial she had a verdict, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial, made upon the ground, among others, that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, was denied, and judgment was entered upon the verdict. From the judgment and order this appeal is. taken. ■
It appears that in the month of May, 1894, the plaintiff' was a passenger upon the defendant’s railway. She was riding in an open car up…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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