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

Frank T. Wood, Appellant, v. Woodlawn Improvement Association Transportation Corporation, Respondent.
    
      Negligence — motor vehicles — streets — injury to plaintiff from being struck by motor bus while crossing street at corner — contributory negligence.
    
    
      Woodv. Woodlawn Imp; Assn. T. Corp., 215 App. Div. 628, affirmed.
    (Argued February 21, 1928;
    decided March 27, 1928.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered June 2, 1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff while crossing Broadway at its intersection with State street in the city of Albany was struck by one of defendant’s automobile buses and received the injuries complained of. The Appellate Division held that on the evidence plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as matter of law.
    
      Charles E. Brennan for appellant.
    
      Neile F. Towner and Robert F. Woody for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman and O’Brien, JJ. Not sitting: Kellogg, J.