Case Name: D'AURIA v. RODGERS
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1909-11-30
Citations: 119 N.Y.S. 1122
Docket Number: 
Parties: D’AURIA v. RODGERS.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 119
Pages: 1122–1122

Head Matter:
D’AURIA v. RODGERS.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
November 30. 1909.)
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of the Bronx, First District. Action by Cosino D’Auria against John P. Rodgers, Jr. From a Municipal Court judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial ordered.
Frank Y. Johnson (Thomas P. Dunphy, of counsel), for appellant.
Robert O. Burlando, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The plaintiff has recovered a judgment-awarding him damages for an injury he. claims to have sustained through the negligence of the defendant. He was engaged in dumping dirt from dirt cars, which he attempted to stop by putting one end of a stick on the track as a block to the wheels. The evidence is unsatisfactory, and gives but a scant idea of the circumstances under which the cars were being operated and the manner in which they should have been stopped. The record now before us does not establish negligence on the part of the defendant. The judgment is reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.