Weitzman v. Nassau Electric Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louis Weitzman, as administrator, etc., of Harry Weitzman, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court m favor of -the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, on the 11th day of April, 1898, upon the verdict of' a jury, .and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of February, 1898, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
Harry Weitzman, plaintiff’s intestate, was, on the evening of the 9th day of May, 1897, upon Rockaway avenue, in the city of Brooklyn. He was at that time about five years of age, and was in the act of passing from a candy store at Ho. 386 to his home on the opposite side of the street, where his. sister, a young woman of - twenty-four, awaited him upon the veranda. He was' about seventy-five feet from the corner of Glenmore avenue, and the car of the defendant, at the time the child left the sidewalk to pass over the street, was at this corner. ' The distance from the curb line…
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