Court Opinion

ID: 8274901
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 01:45:07.78843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:38.244724
License: Public Domain

MacLEAN, J.
The complaint herein was properly dismissed as to the defendant Ficke, because there was no proof that he was the owner of the wagon in collision on Thirty-Seventh street, between the North River and Eleventh avenue, with a wagon presumably belonging to and in the service of his codefendants (Norris v. Kohler, 41 N. Y. 42, 45); but as to the latter there arose, under the doctrine of Loudoun v. Eighth Ave. R. R. Co., 162 N. Y. 380, 384, 56 N. E. 988, for submission to the jury an issue of negligence, meager as were the details of the occurrence. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs as to the respondent Ficke, and reversed as to the defendant Mc-Ginn Bros., and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. Judgment affirmed as to the respondent Ficke, with costs, and reversed as to the defendant McGinn Bros., with costs to the appellant to abide the event. All concur.