Young v. Muhling
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Eugene Muhling, an infant, by Joseph E. Muhling, his guardian ad litem, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rockland on the 25th day of February, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the Ith day of February, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
At the time of the transactions involved in this suit the defendant was a minor. About the middle of June, 1898, he went to the plaintiffs livery stable at Spring Valley, in Rockland county, and ordered a team with which to go to Haverstraw on the third of July following. He told the plaintiff’s agent in charge of the stable that he wanted to drive to Haverstraw and “ cut a swell ” there, and the agent swore that he let him the horses for that purpose. The arrangement was that the team should be delivered at the defendant’s house in the village of Monsey, on July 3, 1898,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Campbell v. StakesCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1828
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