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

CITY COURT OF BROOKLYN — GENERAL TERM,
    DECEMBER, 1895.
    William H. Jones, as Administrator, Respondent, v. The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co., Appellant.
    Appeal from judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon :& verdict, and from order denying motion- for a new. trial.
    
      Morris & Whitehouse (Almet F. Jenks, of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Baldwin F. Strauss, for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

Action to recover damages for negligently -causing the death" of plaintiff’s intestate, a-child four years -of age. Plaintiff had a verdict, and defendant appeals from the judgment entered thereon and the Order denying motion for a new trial.

The learned counsel for the appellant contends- that the "motion to - dismiss the complaint should have been granted, on the grounds, jvrst, that plaintiff failed to prove any negligence ■on the part of defendant’s servants, and, second, that. plaintiff failed to prove freedom from contributory negligence on the part of the parents of the deceased child.

On a previous, appeal in this case (10 Misc. Rep. 543) this court held, on substantially the same evidence on the part ■of the plaintiff, that neither of thesepoints was well taken. A ■careful examination of the evidence adduced on behalf of the ■defendant on this trial affords no ground; for altering the "former decision. The questions as to negligence of defendant ■and freedom from contributory negligence on the part of the ■child’s parents were properly left to the jury to decide, and "the verdict is well sustained by the evidence. .......

Judgment' and order denying motion for a new trial •affirmed, with costs.

Present: Osborne and Van Wyok, JJ.

■Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.