Case ID: nys_125/html/1145-09.html
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Author: {"author": "PER. CURIAM. SPRING, J., McLENNAN, P. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STANFIELD, Respondent, v. TOWN OF HAMBURG, Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
    October 12, 1910.)
    Action by Esther S. Stanfield, as administratrix, etc., of Frederick 'Stanfield, deceased, against the Town of Hamburg.
   PER. CURIAM.

Judgment and order reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event. Held, that as matter of law the plaintiE failed to establish freedom from contributory negligence. See infra. See, also, 118 N. Y. Supp. 1144.

SPRING, J.,

concurs on the further ground that as matter of law the plaintiE failed to show any actionable negligence on the part of the defendant.

McLENNAN, P. J.,

dissents, and votes for affirmation, on the ground that the questions of negligence and of freedom from contributory negligence are questions of fact for the jury.