Coleman 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 Kings bn the 27th day of October, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,925, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of November, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
The plaintiff alleged “ that on the 31st day of March, 1901, the above-named plaintiff, while riding as a passenger for hire on one of the defendant’s cars, and when said' car came to a complete stop at the corner of 37th street and Eighth avenue, * * * and while in the act of alighting from said car, and while using all due and proper care for her own safety,” the ear was “ started up by *436the. defendant’s agents and servants with great suddenness and velocity, throwing the plaintiff off said ear,” etc.' .
This was the issue of negligence tendered, and the testimony of the…
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