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Katie J. MacMahon, as Administratrix of John Joseph MacMahon, Deceased, Respondent, v. The Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company, Appellant
153 N.Y. 667·New York Court of Appeals·1897·NY
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Opinion
Katie J. MacMahon, as Administratrix of John Joseph MacMahon, Deceased, Respondent, v. The Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company, Appellant.
Reported below, 10 App. Div. 376.
(Argued June 7, 1897;
decided June 15,1897.)
Motion for leave to appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second .judicial department, entered November 23, 1896, which unanimously affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and also an order denying a motion for a new trial, in an action to recover damages for a personal injury — the Appellate Division having refused to allow an appeal to the Court of Appeals.
George Bethwie Adams for motion.
0harries J. Patterson opposed.
[MAJORITY]
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs, but without prejudice to the making of an application to a single judge.