Case ID: ny-sup-ct_12/html/0178-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Tappen, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHARLES W. SATTERLY, Respondent, v. THOMAS G. HALLOCK and others, Appellants.
    
      Contributory negligence.
    
    Defendants unlawfully removed the plaintiff's vessel, without his consent, from the dock at which she was lying, and left her lying in the stream on a log of wood which had some time before been thrown overboard by the plaintiff himself; at low water the vessel settled on the log and sustained the damages to recover which this action was brought. Reid, that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence in throwing the log overboard, and that he was entitled to recover.
    Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Suffolk county in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the verdict of a jury.
    
      R. Jénnings, for appellants. Strong c& Spear, for respondent.
   Opinion by

Tappen, J.

Present — Barnard, P. J., Tappen and Taloott, JJ.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.