Case ID: nj-misc_5/html/1048-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GLADYS SULLIVAN, BY NEXT FRIEND, AND JOHN T. SULLIVAN, v. BRADLEY BEACH BATHING COMPANY.
    Decided December 1, 1927.
    Negligence — Injury to Young Girl in a Bath House — Verdict for Father and Against Girl — Both Sides Ask for New Trial— Rule Allowed in Each Case.
    On plaintiffs’ rule to show cause. On defendant’s rule to show cause.
    Before Gummeee, Chief Justice, and Justices Black and Lloyd.
    For the plaintiffs, Theodore D. Parsons.
    
    For the defendant, John S. Ap-plegate & Son.
    
   Per Curiam.

This suit was brought by Gladys Sullivan, a young girl, to recover compensation for personal injuries received by her through a fall in the bathhouse of the defendant company, and also by her father to recover expenses incurred by him by reason of his daughter’s fall. The trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the father for $1,050, and against the daughter and in favor of the defendant company as to her claim. The defendant seeks to have a verdict set aside so far as it awarded damages to the father and the plaintiffs seek to have it set aside so far as it denied compensation to the daughter.

In view of the fact that both the plaintiffs and defendant concur in the view that the verdict as a whole is erroneous, and because it is manifestly self-contradictory, the rules to show cause will each of them be made absolute.