Case Name: Christopher Boyle, Appellant, v. Mallory Steamship Company, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1919-01-07
Citations: 225 N.Y. 639
Docket Number: 
Parties: Christopher Boyle, Appellant, v. Mallory Steamship Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 225
Pages: 639–640

Head Matter:
Christopher Boyle, Appellant, v. Mallory Steamship Company, Respondent.
Boyle v. Mallory Steamship Co., 173 App. Div. 936, affirmed.
(Argued November 27, 1918;
decided January 7, 1919.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 20, 1916, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have beep, sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant. The complaint alleged that while plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s vessels it negligently permitted soot and cinders to be emitted from the urnoke stack and that a particle entering plaintiff’s eye caused inflammation resulting in loss of sight.
William Van Wyck and WilliamF. Purdy for appellant.
Henry' M. Hewitt and James A. Hatch for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Chase, Cardozo, McLaughlin and Andrews, JJ. Dissenting: Hogan and Pound, JJ. _