Lennon v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by tbe plaintiff, Hugh Lennon, from a judgment of the Supreme Ooiurt in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the lith day of November, 1911, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Queens County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff as the result of a collision between a heavily-loaded beer truck which he was driving and one of the defendant’s trolley cars at the intersection of Lee avenue and Lynch street, in the borough of Brooklyn. These highways cross each other at right angles, the avenue extending north and south, and the plaintiff, driving west on the north side of Lynch street, had almost crossed the first of a double line of trolley tracks on Lee avenue when the defendant’s trolley car] proceeding north on…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Payne v. . Troy Boston Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Weil v. Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery R. R.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Monck v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
- Wolfkiel v. . Sixth Avenue R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1868
- Monck v. . Brooklyn Heights Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
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