Crowley v. Rochester Fireworks Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Trial Term, Albany County. Action by Mary F. Crowley against the Rochester Fireworks Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoughton, J.
The city of Albany entered into a contract to an one public parks. The plaintiff was one of the numerous spectators, and chose her position in a street adjacent to the park, and at no great distance from the place of firing. When the exhibition had been in progress about half an hour, and several large rockets had been fired without damage, the plaintiff, while gazing upward, was hit in the face by the stick of an exploded rocket, and severely injured. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the court granted the defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, and from the judgment entered thereon the…
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