Morris v. . the New York Central and Hudson River Rd. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff when a passenger upon defendant’s road, in consequence of the falling upon him of a clothes wringer which had been placed by another passenger in a rack over plaintiff’s seat.
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This action was brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff when a passenger upon defendant’s road, in consequence of the falling upon him of a clothes wringer which had been placed by another passenger in a rack over plaintiff’s seat. “ The learned judge, in submitting this case to the jury, instructed them that there was no evidence upon which they could find that the car or the rack therein was insufficient, and that there was no negligence upon the part of the defendant in receiving the clothes-wringer in the car, nor was there evidence that any employe of…
1Opinion of the Court
Peckham, J.,
reads for reversal and new trial.
All concur, except Daneobtii, J., dissenting.
Judgment reversed.
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