Gross v. Goodman

The defendant Hyman Goodman, a driver employed to make deliveries, discovered that several tubs of butter were missing from his truck. Some time thereafter he was notified by a patrolman to be on guard as he suspected that there were truck thieves in the neighborhood. A short time later the defendant recognized some suspected thieves and gave chase and fired a loaded pistol, for which he had a permit, intending to frighten them and to get them to stop. The shooting took place on Greenwich street, a public thoroughfare in the city of New York. The bullet, however, struck the plaintiff, a…