Case ID: ny-sup-ct_8/html/0613-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHN M. JONES, Respondent, v. THOMAS CHANTRY, Appellant.
    A party who directs an obstruction to be put in a highway, cannot shield himself from liability, by showing that it was put there by a contractor.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered on the verdict of a jury, in an action brought to recover for damages sustained by plaintiff, he being thrown from a wagon while driving on a public highway, by reason of obstructions placed there by defendant’s contractor, under defendant’s direction.
    
      J. Thomas Spriggs, for the appellant.
    
      W. Kernan, for the respondent.
   Opinion by Gilbert, J.

Judgment affirmed.