Gillies v. Lent
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from a judgment. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by a horse belonging to the plaintiff, by reason of the negligence of the defendant’s servant in managing and driving a stage owned by her.
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Appeal from a judgment. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by a horse belonging to the plaintiff, by reason of the negligence of the defendant’s servant in managing and driving a stage owned by her. The complaint alleged that the. defendant was the proprietor and owner, and engaged in the business of operating a certain line of stages or omnibusses„in the city of New York ; and then set out the injury complained of, as occasioned by the driver of one of defendant’s stages. ' The answer admitted the allegation'of the defendant’s ownership of the line of stages,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.—Daly, F. J.
J.—The defendant, a married woman, is the proprietor of a line of omnibusses, and is engaged in the business of running them in this city. The action is brought against her to recover damages for a collision caused by the negligence of the driver of one of her omnibusses, and the point presented is whether the action will lie. I cannot see why it will not.
A married woman is now allowed to carry on any trade or business upon her sole and separate account, the earnings of which are her separate property, to be used or invested by her in her own name (Laws of 1860, p.…
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