Case Name: Joan Learn et al., Appellants, v. Bicentennial Wagon Train, Respondent, and Norman Deep, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Aitkin Kynette, Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1982-02-16
Citations: 86 A.D.2d 862
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joan Learn et al., Appellants, v Bicentennial Wagon Train, Respondent, and Norman Deep, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Aitkin Kynette, Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 862–863

Head Matter:
Joan Learn et al., Appellants, v Bicentennial Wagon Train, Respondent, and Norman Deep, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Aitkin Kynette, Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Another Third-Party Action.)

Opinion:
In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Rubenfeld, J.), entered May 7, 1981, which was in favor of the defendants and against them, upon a jury verdict. Judgment affirmed, without costs or disbursements. The rule set forth in Pfaffenbach v White Plains Express Corp. (17 NY2d 132), permitting an inference of negligence solely from the fact that the defendant's motor vehicle went off the road causing damage, is not applicable in the case where a team of horses bolts and pulls its wagon off the road injuring a bystander. Titone, J. P., Mangano and O'Connor, JJ., concur.