Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1903

Dunford v. Interurban Street Railway Co.

Dunford v. Interurban Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 18, 1903 · Blanchard
84 N.Y.S. 865 (New York Supplement)

Counsel

Henry A. Robinson (J. Ralph Hilton and W. E. Weaver, of counsel), for appellant., Burton W. Gibson, for respondent.

Dunford v. Interurban Street Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court

BLANCHARD, J.

The plaintiff seeks to recover for injuries received by him as the result of a collision between a wagon he was driving and one of the defendant’s cars. It appears that the plaintiff was disabled for a week and two days, and then went to work, and that while driving his horse the.horse became frightened and ran away, and the plaintiff jumped. The plaintiff then testified that he worked the two days following. He was then asked;

“Q. And then did you do any work? Defendant’s Attorney: Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial, not having been shown to be the result of this accident. (Objection overruled. Exception taken.) A. No, sir.”

There is no proof that plaintiff was hurt as the result of his jumping from his wagon when his horse ran away, and the court charged the jury that the plaintiff could only recover for “the direct conse*866quences” of the accident. This being the only assignment of error, we do not consider that-the appellant has been prejudiced. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concur.

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