Hagadorn v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.

Memorandum by the Court. This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, against the defendant and in plaintiff’s favor, entered in Rensselaer County, June 20, 1947, upon a jury verdict at a Trial Term, and from orders denying its motion for nonsuit and to set the verdict aside and for a new trial.

The plaintiff, who was an infant, approximately thirteen years old, together with his uncle, who was sixteen years old, hitchhiked an automobile ride on a 1930 Ford coupe on August- 4, 1937. The plaintiff stood on the right-hand running board of the automobile and hung on…