Case Name: CAMPBELL v. LUDIN et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-05-16
Citations: 104 N.Y.S. 372
Docket Number: 
Parties: CAMPBELL v. LUDIN et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 104
Pages: 372–372

Head Matter:
CAMPBELL v. LUDIN et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 16, 1907.)
Trial—Instruction—Invasion of Jury’s Province.
Where, in an action for injury to a horse, its value was a question for the jury, it was error to instruct that, if the jury found for plaintiff, it must be for a fixed sum.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 46, Trial, §§ 318-327.]
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of the Bronx, Eirst District.
Action by Bernard Campbell against Susan A. Eudin and another, trading as the New York Bottling Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Argued before GIEDERSLEEVE, P. J., and SEABURY and BRADY, JJ.
Deyo, Duer & Bayerdorf, for appellants.
Timothy Power, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The value of the horse injured was a question of fact for the jury, and they should have been left free to determine it. The learned justice erred in instructing the jury that, if they found a verdict for the plaintiff, it must be for $150. Reves v. Hyde, 14 Daly, 432.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide the event.