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Minnie Koehne, Respondent, v. New York and Queens County Railway Company, Appellant, 1899 — 160 N.Y. 673 · caselaw · US
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Minnie Koehne, Respondent, v. New York and Queens County Railway Company, Appellant
160 N.Y. 673·New York Court of Appeals·1899·NY
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Minnie Koehne, Respondent, v. New York and Queens County Railway Company, Appellant.
(Submitted October 2, 1899;
decided October 10, 1899.)
Reported below, 32 App. Div. 419.
Motion to prefer an appeal allowed by a judge of the Court of Appeals from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered August 8, 1898, unanimously affirming a judgment, in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and an order denying a motion for a new trial, in an action to recover damages for a personal injury.
The motion was made upon the grounds: 1. That the appeal is entitled to a preference under subdivision 12, section 791, Code of Civil Procedure (Chap. 355, Laws of 1899). 2. That the point of law involved in - the appeal is of great public importance.
Weed, Story & Stratton for motion.
William E. Story opposed.
[MAJORITY]
Motion denied, without costs, on decision in Coxhead v. Johnson (160 N. Y. 369).