Bopp v. New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Ingraham, J., dissented. Appeal by the defendants, the New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of March, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from orders entered in said clerk’s office respectively on the 9th day of April, 1902, and on the 10th day of April, 1902, denying said defendants’ motions…
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Ingraham, J., dissented. Appeal by the defendants, the New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of March, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from orders entered in said clerk’s office respectively on the 9th day of April, 1902, and on the 10th day of April, 1902, denying said defendants’ motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff while riding in a vehicle of the electric company. It was *339disclosed by the evidence that the plaintiff and two other women were being carried down Eighth avenue, and at about the intersection of Thirty-eighth street the vehicle and a beer truck collided, the effect of which was to throw the plaintiff violently against the dashboard of the vehicle, from which she suffered injuries. The testimony upon the part of the plaintiff’s witnesses tended to show that the person in control of the vehicle turned out to pass…
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