Jackson Architectural Iron Works v. Hurlbut
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the late Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Hew York, entered December 21, 1895, affirming a judgment in favor of-plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and an order denying a motion for a. new trial.
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Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the late Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Hew York, entered December 21, 1895, affirming a judgment in favor of-plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and an order denying a motion for a. new trial. This action, was brought to recover damages for the breaking of a planing machine belonging to the plaintiff, while in the custody of defendants, who were truckmen in the city of New York, for transportation to the plaintiff’s factory. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The contract by virtue of which the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The question in this case involved the responsibility of the defendants for an injury to property while it was in their custody as bailees for hire or reward. They were employed by the plaintiff in February, 1892, to transport a large planing machine, used for planing iron, over thirty feet long and weighing over ten tons, from the foot of Twenty-third street on the Worth river to the plaintiff’s factory at East Twenty-eighth street in the city of Wew York. The agreed compensation for the service was sixty dollars. They undertook to perform the work, and while unloading the machine at the…
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