Flannagan v. Brown

Dowling, J.:

This action was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by reason of defendants’ alleged negligence. The accident occurred on April 24, 1922, on the east side of Columbus avenue, between Eightieth and Eighty-first streets, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York. Deceased, a chauffeur, was claimed to have been working at the brake on the left-hand rear wheel of his taxicab, then standing at the easterly curb of the avenue, when he was struck by an automobile belonging to defendant Brown, and driven by the defendant Grothe, a chauffeur in the employ of Mrs. Joan E.…