Legal Opinion

Wasilewski v. Wendell

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided April 22, 1887Published

Appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

1Opinion of the CourtHyatt, J.

This action was brought to recover the sum of sixty dollars upon an alleged contract to pay for certain advertising.

While the jury were deliberating they sent to the judge, in writing, the following question: ‘'If the plaintiff’s paper-was left at the defendants’s place of business, with the-advertisement in it, are we charged to find for plaintiff % ” to which he replied, also in writing, as follows:

" If the defendant had knowledge that the advertisement, was contained in the newspaper, and made no objection to-it, but continued to allow such publication to be continued.’'

*509This instruction,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Spatz v. LyonsNew York Supreme Court · 1870

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