Case Name: Catherine Schmidt, an Infant, by Harold C. Schmidt, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, and Harold C. Schmidt, Plaintiff, v. New York Telephone Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-03-30
Citations: 250 A.D. 788
Docket Number: 
Parties: Catherine Schmidt, an Infant, by Harold C. Schmidt, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, and Harold C. Schmidt, Plaintiff, v. New York Telephone Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 250
Pages: 788–788

Head Matter:
Catherine Schmidt, an Infant, by Harold C. Schmidt, Her Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, and Harold C. Schmidt, Plaintiff, v. New York Telephone Company, Appellant.

Opinion:
The action is for damages for personal injuries sustained by an infant and for loss of services. The trial resulted in a verdict of $750 for the infant and in a verdict for the defendant on the father's cause of action. Defendant alone appeals. There was evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant placed its trailer on the sidewalk with its shaft or tongue raised and insecurely resting against a telegraph pole; that the defendant permitted the trailer to remain on the sidewalk unguarded; that the infant was not playing on the trailer but was on the sidewalk when the shaft or tongue fell and injured her. Under the circumstances, the jury was justified in concluding that defendant was negligent. (Boylhart v. Di Marco & Reimann, Inc., 270 N. Y. 217.) The court's references to the trailer being an attractive nuisance, if error, were harmless, particularly as the court charged that the trailer " in and of itself would not constitute an attractive nuisance." Judgment and order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Johnston, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ.