Ferry v. Manhattan Railway Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the G-eneral Term of the Superior Court of the city of New York, entered upon an order made May 2, 1887, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. It is the legal right of counsel to submit to the court propositions of law, and the court is bound to instruct the jury upon each proposition so submitted.
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Appeal from judgment of the G-eneral Term of the Superior Court of the city of New York, entered upon an order made May 2, 1887, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. It is the legal right of counsel to submit to the court propositions of law, and the court is bound to instruct the jury upon each proposition so submitted. (Zabriskie v. Smith, 13 N. Y. 322, 338; Chapman v. McCormack, 86 id. 479; Schile v. Brokhaus, 80 id. 614; Taylor v. Ketcham, 5 Robt. 507, 520.) Where it appears…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The plaintiff was one of a party of nine persons who, at One Hundred and Eleventh street in the city of Hew York, entered the last one of four cars constituting a train upon the Second Avenue Elevated Railway, operated by the defendant, and when the train stopped at Fifty-seventh street they proceeded to alight from the car. Six of them had done so, and the plaintiff, next following them, was about stepping from the car when the train suddenly started, as some of the witnesses say, with a jerk, and she was thrown down and severely injured. She brought this action to recover damages for the…
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- Bowen v. . New York Central Railroad Company.New York Court of Appeals · 1858
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