Court Opinion

ID: 5349332
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 06:32:32.947338+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:42.492817
License: Public Domain

The action is for damages for personal injuries sustained by an infant and for loss of services. The trial resulted in a verdict of $750 for the infant and in a verdict for the defendant on the father’s cause of action. Defendant alone appeals. There was evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant placed its trailer on the sidewalk with its shaft or tongue raised and insecurely resting against a telegraph pole; that the defendant permitted the trailer to remain on the sidewalk unguarded; that the infant was not playing on the trailer but was on the sidewalk when the shaft or tongue fell and injured her. Under the circumstances, the jury was justified in concluding that defendant was negligent. (Boylhart v. Di Marco & Reimann, Inc., 270 N. Y. 217.) The court’s references to the trailer being an attractive nuisance, if error, were harmless, particularly as the court charged that the trailer “ in and of itself would not constitute an attractive nuisance.” Judgment and order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Johnston, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ.