J. Livingston & Co. v. Streeter

This is a personal injury case. The injury was inflicted in a most unusual manner. The injured party was a passenger on a street car that had stopped at a street intersection to receive and discharge passengers. The injured party was standing in the aisle of the car, intending to leave the car at that stop. Immediately opposite the car a 21 story bank and office building was then being erected. A workman was using a two-pound sledge hammer on the top cornice of the building, more than 200 feet above the street level. By reason of the workman’s negligence the hammer head fell into the street,…