Ford v. New York City Interborough Railway Co.

Hiscock, Ch. J.

The plaintiff was injured by being struck by one of defendant’s trolley cars moving southerly in the neighborhood of One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street on the Boston road. She was of the age of about eighty years but in possession of normal faculties of hearing and seeing. In the neighborhood of One Hundred and Seventy-eighth street she had ahghted from a subway train which there ran above the street surface, and descended to the sidewalk. She then traveled a short distance southerly towards One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street and then, in the middle of the block,…