Case Name: MARTIN ROM, APPELLANT, v. FRANK HUBER, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1920-03-08
Citations: 94 N.J.L. 258
Docket Number: 
Parties: MARTIN ROM, APPELLANT, v. FRANK HUBER, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 94
Pages: 258–259

Head Matter:
MARTIN ROM, APPELLANT, v. FRANK HUBER, RESPONDENT.
Argued November 26,
Decided March 8, 1920.
On appeal from the Supreme Court, whose opinion is reported in 93 N. J. L. 360.
For the appellant, Isidore Kdliscli.
For the respondent, Theodore McG. Marsh.

Opinion:
Pee Curiam.
The only circumstance' that requires remarle from us is the plaintiff's contention that the defendant was liable for the negligence of his servant, and that in such a ease the rule of Schnatterer v. Bamberger is not applicable. The plaintiff's proposition is legally correct. The answer is that given in substance by the trial judge. There was no evidence that the soap on the floor—if, indeed, there was soap.—was due to the negligence of any servant of the defendant.' The evidence was that soap gets on the floor of the scrub room where patrons of the bath are rubbed by the attendants and might, by contact with the feet, be sent to the door of the steam room where Eom fell. There is nothing in this to show negligence. The occasional fall of pieces of soap, on the floor is inevitable, and as patrons went from one room to another we cannot assume that the only persons whose feet might have sent the soap through the door, if that was the fact, were employes of ihe defendant. There is no evidence that it was impelled hv the foot of the defendant, or his agents, or that it might not have been by customers, of the bath.
Let the judgment he affirmed, with costs.
For affirmance—The; Ohaneellor, Swayzb, Trekcttard, Parker, Bergen", White, ITeppeniietmer, Williams, Gaedker, Acker,son, JJ. 10.
For reversaJ—Kalisoh, Taylor, JJ. 2.