United Laundries Co. v. Bradford

The question of main importance in this ease is whether the evidence was legally sufficient to support the inference that the personal injuries sued for were permanent in their effects. The plaintiff was struck by a bale of hay, weighing’ about 240 pounds, which was thrown down from the third floor of a stable and storage building of the defendants, abutting upon the sidewalk along which the plaintiff was passing. It is not disputed that there was legally sufficient evidence of negligence on the part of the defendants-’ employees in the handling of the hay which caused the plaintiff’s injury.…