Court Opinion

ID: 6147534
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 15:28:38.714352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:54:55.344097
License: Public Domain

Smith, J.—
The plaintiff’s husband was killed in a collision with an automoble. He was riding a bicycle up Second avenue *473between Fourth and Fifth streets, in the borough of Manhattan. The automobile was owned by the defendant and was going south on Second avenue. There were two automobiles going south at the same time upon the south-bound track of the trolley. The defendant’s automobile veered to the left and was going south upon the north-bound track of the trolley. The evidence is to the effect that it was speed-checked so that it could not go more than seventeen or eighteen miles an hour, nor with a load over fourteen miles an hour. It was evidently going rapidly in passing these two automobiles, one of which was towing the other, a cripple. The plaintiff’s intestate came up the street upon or near the north-bound track. There is nothing to show why the plaintiff’s intestate could not have seen this automobile coming down the track if he were going up the track directly, as seems to be the general import of the testimony. The testimony of the truck driver, however, is that he suddenly came out from behind some other automobiles or trucks and was Upon the track in front of him within a very few feet of his automobile so that he could not stop. The evidence is.such that a question was fairly presented to the jury as to whether the contract with the railway companies had ever been abrogated. All that was claimed was that defendant had agreed to be personally liable for the fulfillment by the railway companies of the original contract.- The plaintiffs, therefore, made out no case for submission to the jury and the defendant’s motion for a dismissal should have been, granted. z
The judgment and order should be reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event.
Clarke, P. J., McLaughlin, Dowling and Davis, JJ., concurred.
Judgment and order reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event. •