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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United Transportation Company, Respondent, v. John D. Hass, Appellant.
    
      United Transportation Co. v. Hass, 171 App. Div. 971, afíirmed.
    (Argued December 17, 1917;
    decided January 8, 1918.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered December 9, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor. of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The relief sought was damages for injury to a motor bus owned by the plaintiff, a New York state corporation, in a collision at Pittsfield, Mass., due to the alleged negligence of defendant’s chauffeur. The defendant denied the alleged negligence and claimed that the plaintiff’s bus driver was negligent and that at the time of the accident the plaintiff’s bus had no right to be upon the highway under the statutes of the state of Massachusetts and that under the law of the state of Massachusetts the plaintiff could not recover.
    
      George B. Wellington for appellant.
    J. Harris Loucks for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.