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Thomas P. Wood, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Company, Appellant, 1898 — 157 N.Y. 696 · caselaw · US
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Thomas P. Wood, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Company, Appellant
157 N.Y. 696·New York Court of Appeals·1898·NY
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Thomas P. Wood, Respondent, v. The Third Avenue Railroad Company, Appellant.
Wood v. Third Avenue R. S. Go., 91 Hun, 376, affirmed.
(Argued October 25, 1898;
decided November 22, 1898.)
Appeal from a judgment of the late General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 18, 1895, upon an order reversing an order of the Kings County Circuit granting a motion to set aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff and for a new trial, and directing judgment upon the verdict.
Eugene Treadwell and Henry L. Soheuerman, for appellant.
Isaac M. Hopper for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment and order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Bartlett, Haight, Martin and Vann, JJ. ; dissent, Parker, Ch. J., Gray and O’Brien, JJ.