Van Cott v. North Jersey Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The plaintiff, while crossing a public street in the city of Newark, was struck by a trolley ear of the defendant, receiving injuries for which she recovered damages in the Circuit Court. Upon this writ of error brought to *230reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court the assignment chiefly argued was the alleged error of the trial court in denying a motion to nonsuit, which was asked for at the close of the plaintiffs ease, upon the ground that the negligence of tire defendant’s motorman was not legitimately inferable from the testimony. As…