Case Name: RYDELL v. GREENHUT & CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-11-25
Citations: 125 N.Y.S. 838
Docket Number: 
Parties: RYDELL v. GREENHUT & CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 125
Pages: 838–838

Head Matter:
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

Opinion:
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."