Field v. Empire Case Goods Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Empire Case Goods Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 13th day of May, 1917, denying its motion for judgment on the pleadings consisting of a complaint and answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The action is to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant in the improper and negligent construction of a bed, which collapsed while plaintiff was lying upon it and about to be delivered of a child.
The complaint alleges that the defendant is a corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling to retail dealers in household furniture; that prior to August, 1915, it manufactured and sold to a retail firm a Circassian walnut bed; that in said month of August said retail firm sold and delivered said bed to the…
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