Kokoll v. Brohm & Buhl Lumber Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

While the plaintiff was repairing a carriage which stood in the street near the curb in front of his workshop, defendant’s runaway team, attached to a wagon, collided with and damaged plaintiff’s carriage, for which he brought a suit and recovered the judgment now under review. The testimony shows that plaintiff was a carriage-maker doing business in the city of Newark; that a customer had left, for repair, a carriage on the public street close to the curb in front of plaintiffs workshop; that while plaintiff was repairing the carriage on the…