Pietraroia v. New Jersey & Hudson River Railway & Ferry Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Hew Jersey and Hudson Biver Bailway and Ferry Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 16th day of June, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The action is to recover damages for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate while she was attempting to cross one of defendant’s tracks. The defendant is a Hew Jersey corporation, operates a ferry across the Hudson fiver from Hew York city to Fort Lee, and a double-track street railway running from that place to various, points in Horthern Hew Jersey.
In the evening of October 19, 1906, the deceased, in company with her husband and another man, were intending to board a north-bound car on Broad avenue, in whát is known as Palisades park. As they came to the far side of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dolfini v. . Erie R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1904
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