Johnson v. Standard Transportation Co.

Judgment and order unanimously affirmed, with costs. The. case was tried and submitted to the jury on the theory set forth in the complaint without objection or exception. It was a common-law action for damages for negligence. The jury having found a verdict for defendant, we are now asked to reverse the judgment and to send the case back to be tried before the court and a jury under the maritime law, which allows recovery in certain eases of contributory negligence by apportionment or abatement of plaintiff's recovery. But the maritime law cannot be administered in the State Supreme Court.…