Case ID: nys_129/html/1115-13.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. HOUGHTON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHASE, Respondent, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department.
    May 3, 1911.)
    Action by Joseph E. Chase against the General Electric Company.
   PER CURIAM.

Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.

HOUGHTON, J.,

dissents, on the ground that, if the fire was caused by opening the cover to the furnace, such accident was one not reasonably to be anticipated, and hence there was no negligence on the part of the defendant.