Legal Opinion

O'Connor v. Webber

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 29, 1914PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal by the defendants, Richard Webber, Jr., and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 15th day of October, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

1Opinion of the Court

Stapleton, J.:

The defendants appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $4,000, and from an order denying a motion to set aside the verdict and- for a new trial.

The action was brought in behalf of the infant plaintiff to recover damages for the amputation of a portion of his right *176hand, which was crushed in a chopping machine maintained and operated by the defendants in their retail butcher shop and general store in the city of Mount Vernon.*

At the time of the casualty, on June 4,1913, the plaintiff was under fifteen years of age, and had been in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Shannahan v. . Empire Engineering Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1912
  2. Schapp v. . BloomerNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
  3. Poole v. American Linseed Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Dell'Olio v. MastronardiAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1944
  2. People v. Cross & Brown Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1931
  3. People v. R. F. Stevens Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
  4. People v. RaportAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920
  5. Comiskey v. WinstonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917

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