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

RYDELL v. GREENHUT & CO.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
    November 25, 1910.)
    Negligence (§ 141)—Contributory Negligence—Instructions.
    Defendant, in an action for negligence, is entitled to a charge that, if plaintiff was guilty of any negligence, no matter how slight, which contributed to the accident, the verdict must be for defendant.
    [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Negligence, Cent. Dig. § 383; Dec. Dig. § 141.]
    Appeal from Trial Term., New York County.
    Action by Emil Rydell against Greenhut & Co. Erom a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for new trial, defendants appeal.
    Reversed, and new trial ordered. .
    Argued before INGRAHAM, P. J., and McLAUGHLIN, LAUGHLIN, MILLER, and DOWLING, JJ.
    Theodore H. Lord, for appellants.
    B. L. Rich, for respondent.
    
      
      For other cases see same topic & § nvmbeb in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
    
   PER CURIAM.

The judgment and order appealed from must be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellants to abide the event, for the error of the court in refusing to charge that:

“If the plaintiff was guilty of any negligence, no matter how slight, which contributed, to the accident, the verdict must be for the defendants.”