Schulman v. Hedges — 245 N.Y. 635

Majority

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Yetta Schulman, Respondent, v. Job E. Hedges, as Receiver of New York Railways Company, Defendant, and Joseph Tino & Co., Inc., Appellant. Moritz Schulman, Respondent, v. Job E. Hedges, as Receiver of New York Railways Company, Defendant, and Joseph Tino & Co., Inc., Appellant.

(Argued June 17, 1927;

decided July 20, 1927.)

Headnote

Negligence — motor vehicles — passenger on trolley car injured from collision with auto truck.

Schulman v. Hedges (2 cases), 219 App. Div. 782 , affirmed.

Appeal, in each of the above-entitled actions, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 26, 1927, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff Yetta Schulman through the negligence of defendants, and in an action by her husband to recover for loss of services and expense

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by reason of such injuries. Plaintiff Yetta Schulman while riding on a trolley car was injured through a collision between the car and defendant, appellant’s auto truck.

Everett W. Bovard, Clarence E. Meller and Norman G. Hewitt for appellant.

Albert Adams and Leon Sanders for respondent.

Judgment in each case affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.