Case Name: May McLoughlin, by Margaret Mitchell, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent; Carrie Daniels, by Hannah Noonan, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1911-12
Citations: 147 A.D. 932
Docket Number: 
Parties: May McLoughlin, by Margaret Mitchell, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent. Carrie Daniels, by Hannah Noonan, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 932–933

Head Matter:
May McLoughlin, by Margaret Mitchell, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent. Carrie Daniels, by Hannah Noonan, Her Guardian ad Litem, Appellant, v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Respondent.
Railroad—negligence—damages —judgment of nonsuit.
Appeals by the plaintiffs from judgments of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of June, 1911, and from orders entered in said office on the 15th day of June, 1911, denying them motions for a new trial on the minutes.

Opinion:
Rich, J.:
These appeals are by plaintiffs from a judgment in favor of the defendant in each of the two cases which were tried together. The plaintiffs were passengers on a trolley car operated by the defendant which collided with another of defendant's cars. The actions are based on the negligence of the defendant in the operation of these ears, and upon the trial the defendant admitted its liability in both eases. The plaintiffs each testified to the injuries received and the attendant consequences; their testimony is corroborated by them physician, and is not contradicted nor are they in any manner impeached. While the plaintiffs may have exaggerated and magnified them injuries, the evidence is such as to. entitle each to recover something by way of damages. (Levine v. Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban R. R. Co., 134 App. Div. 606.) The judgment and order must be reversed and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event. Hirschberg and Carr, JJ., concurred; Jenks, P. J., and Burr, J., dissented on the ground that the jury was justified in finding that plaintiff sustained no actual damage, and a court will not reverse for the sake of nominal damages. The Levine case, cited in the prevailing opinion, was a nonsuit, and there was uncontradicted evidence of actual damage. In the ease at bar the extent of the injury was disputed. In each case judgment and order reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide the event.