Stern v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

Stern v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

35 Misc. 811, 72 N.Y.S. 1130

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York·Decided June 15, 1901·Published·Cited by 1 cases

Opinion

Per Curiam.

The. evidence for the plaintiff shows a lad six years old, and near the middle of the block he attempted to cross the rails, when the defendant’s horse ear was approaching from a point four or five houses distant. The boy was struck by one of the horses and injured. The case was submitted to the jury on this proof, a motion to dismiss the complaint having been denied. Conceding the driver negligent, the child was equally so, and the motion to dismiss should have been granted.

Present: Scott, P. J., Beach and Fitzgerald, JJ.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide event.

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Per Curiam.

The. evidence for the plaintiff shows a lad six years old, and near the middle of the block he attempted to cross the rails, when the defendant’s horse ear was approaching from a point four or five houses distant. The boy was struck by one of the horses and injured. The case was submitted to the jury on this proof, a motion to dismiss the complaint having been denied. Conceding the driver negligent, the child was equally so, and the motion to dismiss should have been granted.

Present: Scott, P. J., Beach and Fitzgerald, JJ.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide event.

Stern v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co., 35 Misc. 811, 72 N.Y.S. 1130 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1901).

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