Lomas v. New York City Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary Lomas, from, a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor-of the defendant, entered-in the office of the .clerk of the county of Nassau on the 15tli day of March, 1905, -upon' the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after á trial at the Nassau Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J :
In this action of negligence, by passenger against comráon carrier based upon the negligent operation of defendant’s street car, the plaintiff was nonsuited. She entered the car at One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Eighth avenue; with her was her little grandson, three years, old; the open trolley car was comfortably filled, but not crowded, and the plaintiff was riding at the right hand or •outer end of the seat with the child between her and the extreme outer edge thereof. Intending to alight at Sixty-fifth, street, she raised the child on his feet on the seat as the car…
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- Wylde v. Northern Railroad Co. of New JerseyNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
- Gilmore v. Brooklyn Heights RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Dochtermann v. . Brooklyn Heights Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Sheeron v. Coney Island & Brooklyn RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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- Bergman v. Brooklyn & Queens Transit Corp.City of New York Municipal Court · 1937