Bageard v. Consolidated Traction Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. The plaintiff, in the first count of his declaration, complained that the defendant, a common carrier of passengers upon an electric street railway, did not use due care to assist him to get safely off a car on which he was a passenger, at the terminal station at the foot of Exchange Place, in Jersey City, near the Pennsylvania railroad ferry lo New York, and to pass through such station to the street, and so negligently managed another car as…
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On error to the Supreme Court. The plaintiff, in the first count of his declaration, complained that the defendant, a common carrier of passengers upon an electric street railway, did not use due care to assist him to get safely off a car on which he was a passenger, at the terminal station at the foot of Exchange Place, in Jersey City, near the Pennsylvania railroad ferry lo New York, and to pass through such station to the street, and so negligently managed another car as to run him down while he was carefully proceeding through the station in departing from the car on which he had arrived.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collins, J.
Exceptions to the refusal of the trial judge to nonsuit the plaintiff or direct a verdict for the defendant involve an examination of the evidence in the cause.
The plaintiff was injured on June 12th, 1897, in the terminal station of the defendant’s electric street railway at the foot 'of Exchange Place, in Jersey City, near the ferry to New York. This terminal station was thus arranged and used: inbound cars ran east down York street on a single track and then into the station on four tracks diverging therefrom and curving to the north. In…
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