Case ID: ny_236/html/0670-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Anna Amundsen, as Administratrix of the Estate of Julius E. Amundsen, Deceased, Respondent, v. The Consolidated Forwarding and Building Material Company, Appellant.
    
      Negligence — motor vehicle — action to recover for death through being struck while crossing street.
    
    
      Amundsen v. Consolidated F. & B. Material Co., 206 App. Div. 601, affirmed.
    (Argued October 10, 1923;
    decided October 26, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 27, 1923, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been occasioned through the negligence of defendant. Intestate, while crossing One Hundred and Thirty-second street near Walnut avenue in the borough of The Bronx, was run down by defendant’s automobile truck and died as a result of the injuries received. Defendant denied negligence and set up as a defense contributory negligence on the part of intestate.
    
      James B. Henney and Owen F. Hughes for appellant.
    
      George M. Curtis, Jr., for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.