Hinz v. Eighth Avenue Railroad Co.

Cardozo, J;

The action is for personal injuries.

At Central Park West or Eighth avenue in the city of New York between One Hundred and Ninth and One Hundred and Eleventh streets there is an open space or plaza. Eighth avenue, when projected through the center of the plaza, crosses it north and south. Cathedral Parkway, similarly projected, crosses it approximately east and west. The tracks of the defendant’s street railway, running north and south along Eighth avenue, bisect the plaza in their course. Traffic posts near the center, inclosing a small zone, divide the traffic east and west.

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