Riley v. Jersey Leather Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

These appeals are from judgments of nonsuit at the Camden Circuit in three suits tried below, and argued here together; and it is stipulated that “these three eases shall be considered as one case.”

At the trial the following matters of fact appeared without substantial dispute.

The three defendant leather companies were in some respects co-related and interlocking. They had their plants immediately adjoining one another, and for certain purposes occupied and used in common the yard where the accident took place, which is the basis of these…