McLaughlin v. Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway Company, from a judgment of the County Court of Onondaga county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 1st day of March, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of March, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff, eighty years of age, was injured on the 19th of October, 1905, while boarding one of defendant’s cars at the inter*775section of South Warren and East Fayette streets in the city of Syracuse. He testified that when the car stopped at this street intersection he attempted to get on board ; that the car started suddenly and without warning, throwing him to the grouncl and dislocating his arm at the shoulder and otherwise injuring him. We think the jury were warranted in finding the defendant’s employees guilty of the negligence imputed to them and'the plaintiff free from…
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