Case Name: Bessie Gilligan, Respondent, v. Richard L. Jones and Others, Copartners Doing Business under the Assumed Name and Style of Jones Taxicab Company, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1935-10
Citations: 246 A.D. 531
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bessie Gilligan, Respondent, v. Richard L. Jones and Others, Copartners Doing Business under the Assumed Name and Style of Jones Taxicab Company, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 246
Pages: 531–532

Head Matter:
Bessie Gilligan, Respondent, v. Richard L. Jones and Others, Copartners Doing Business under the Assumed Name and Style of Jones Taxicab Company, Appellants.

Opinion:
Plaintiff, a nurse, was accompanying an insane person from Mount Vernon to the State hospital at Poughkeepsie. With the patient, another nurse and a policeman, she was seated in an automobile owned by defendants and driven by one Levine. Another policeman drove ahead of the automobile on a motorcycle. At the intersection of two streets, and after the motorcyle had passed, there was a collision between the automobile and a motor truck, as the result of which the plaintiff was thrown to the street and her skull fractured. The jury rendered a verdict in her favor, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendants appeal. Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Hagarty, Scudder and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., and Johnston, J., dissent and vote for reversal and a new trial upon the ground that the determination of the jury was against the weight of the evidence.