Court Opinion

ID: 5499019
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 02:56:41.030353+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:53.076493
License: Public Domain

Barnard, P. J.
The evidence in this case was sufficient to go to the jury. The plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s road, and was injured by being struck by the shaft of a wagon, which struck the defendant’s car on the *849side, and near the rear of the same. The car was going down Adams street. The wagon which injured plaintiff was turning from Myrtle avenue into Adams street. When the wagon got to the avenue the defendant’s car was at the crossing where Adams street crosses Myrtle avenue. The car was stopped. The wagon had stopped first. The wagon started when the car stopped, and the car started at the same time. A collision was inevitable, from the position of the vehicles and the narrowness of Adams street. There was barely room in Adams street for a wagon to pass between the tracks and the curb-stone. The vehicles were in plain view of each other, and the collision seems to have happened because the driver of the car started before the wagon could get into Adams street out of Myrtle avenue. There would have been no collision if the car had stood still for a moment. The danger did not come in fact from the side, but from the front. The fact that the car had almost passed is decisive proof that a very short delay in the car would have permitted the wagon, which was first put in motion, to get by. Breen v. Railroad Co., 109 N. Y. 297, 16 N. E. Rep. 60. The exception should be sustained, and a new trial granted, costs to abide event. All concur.