Case ID: misc_52/html/0650-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gustave Karl, Jr., Appellant, v. The New York City Railway Company, Respondent.
    Taking case from jury and non-suit — Weight and sufficiency of evidence — Uncontroverted evidence.
    Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment in favor of the defendant, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, third district, borough of Manhattan.
    Harcourt Bull, for appellant.
    James L. Quackenbush, for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

The case at bar comes directly within the authority of our decision in the case of Lewis v. New York City R. Co., 50 Misc. Rep. 535, where we held that, where a plaintiff is the only witness in her own behalf, but testifies without contradiction to facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and her testimony is clear and not inherently improbable, either in itself or taken in connection with circumstances detailed therein, a court or a jury has no right to disregard it, and a judgment for defendant will be reversed.

Present: Gildersleeve, Fitzgerald and Davis, JJ.

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