Ryerson v. Bathgate

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This was an action of tort for negligence, and, upon the trial, the plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff, a woman sixty-one years of age, kept a small place of business in Newark, and the defendants were the proprietors, of a meat-shop nearby, which was in the charge of one Silvernail as manager. The plaintiff owned a domestic cat of which she desired to be rid, and this fact she made known to Silvernail, who told her that the defendants needed a cat, and suggested that she bring it over to them. This she…