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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Agnes Quinn, Respondent, v. International Railway Company et al., Appellants.
    
      Negligence — carriers — railroads —passengers — injury to passenger on street railway car arising from collision with car of another company — recovery against both companies.
    
    
      Quinn v. International Railway Co., 199 App. Div. 957, affirmed.
    (Argued October 24, 1922;
    decided November 21, 1922.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 15, 1921, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendants. Plaintiff was a passenger upon a car of the defendant International Railway Company which was turning the curve from Chestnut into Swan street in the city of Buffalo, when it was struck by a car of the defendant Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company, proceeding east on Swan street, and as a result of this collision plaintiff received the injuries complained of, for which she has recovered a verdict against both defendants.
    
      Harold S. Brown for International Railway Company, appellant.
    
      Thomas R. Wheeler for receiver of Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company, appellant.
    
      John J. Brown for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Dissenting: McLaughlin, J.