W. N. Stevenson & Co. v. Hartman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the plaintiff, W. N. Stevenson & Company, Inc., for a new trial upon a case containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance after the direction of a general verdict in defendant’s favor, after the court had taken a special verdict on two issues, upon a trial before the court and a jury in the City Court of the City of New York in December, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The trial court took a special verdict on two issues and then directed a general verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff was engaged in manufacturing and selling umbrellas; and the defendant was engaged in trucking, with a horse and truck which he rented for three dollars and fifty cents a day, and of which he had personal charge as driver. The plaintiff employed the defendant on the 2d of July, 1919, to deliver eight packages of umbrellas to various railroad freight stations in the borough of Manhattan for transportation to its customers. The goods were loaded onto the truck by…
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