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

Sarah A. Peck, as Committee of the Person and Estate of Flora Bell Peck, an Incompetent Person, Respondent, v. Burdick & Son, Appellant.
    
      Peck v. Burdick & Son, 166 App. Div. 362, affirmed.
    (Submitted February 8, 1918;
    decided February 26, 1918.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court" in the third judicial department, entered March 9, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff’s incompetent through the alleged negligence of defendant, her employer. The incompetent while operating a machine in defendant’s factory was injured through the slipping of a lever from a hook. The question on appeal was as to the propriety of receiving in evidence an answer to a hypothetical question as to whether the injuries complained of caused subsequent insanity.
    
      Louis F. O’Neill for appellant.
    
      John J. Scully for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.