Prussak v. Hutton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John Hutton and others, from a • judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 6th day of October, 1897, upon .'the verdict of a jury for $200, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of October, ,1897, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
The recovery in this case is for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the explosion on the 5th of -July, 1893, of a powder house or magazine situated within the limits of the city of ' Kingston and owned by the defendant Hutton, and leased by him to the defendant The Baffin & Rand Powder Company, and used,' as it, is claimed, by or for the benefit -of -the firm, of Yan Deuseú Brothers, of whom the other defendant Yan Deusen is the survivor.
*67The trial court held that upon the undisputed facts all the defendants were liable in case the powder house was a…
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- Campbell v. . SeamanNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
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- Comminge & Geisler v. StevensonTexas Supreme Court · 1890
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