Littlefield v. Lawrence
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lemuel Littlefield, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for twenty-five dollars, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of November, 1902, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The complaint alleges that the defendant on the 9th of November, 1899, hired from the plaintiff for a specific purpose a horse, which he so negligently managed and cared for that one of his legs was broken and he had to be killed; that the value of the horse was $175, for which judgment was demanded.
The defendant admitted the hiring, but denied the other material allegations of the complaint, and alleged as a separate defense that the horse was “ balky; ” that as soon as the defendant discovered that fact he proceeded to return him to the plaintiff; while in the act of doing…
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