Langin v. Trustees of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal "by the defendant, The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 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 21st day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of February, 1896, denying the «defendant’s motion…
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Appeal "by the defendant, The Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, 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 21st day of February, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of February, 1896, denying the «defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries •caused by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff, a young woman, then nearly eighteen years of age, was injured on the night of November 4, 1894, as she was alighting from a train at the Brooklyn terminus of the New York and Brooklyn bridge, by falling into a space between the platform of a bridge car and the curved edge of the station platform. This space was :from eight and a half to twelve inches in width. The trial court left it to the jury to say whether it was not the duty of the defendant, under the circumstances, to give the passengers adequate and ; sufficient warning of danger in crossing from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Marks v. Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1895
3Cited by6 opinions
- Woolsey v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Rogers v. TrusteesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Coogan v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906
- Rogers v. Trustees of New York & Brooklyn BridgeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Windels v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906
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