Stapleton v. Butensky
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Lewis Butensky 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 New York on the 16th day of December, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of December, 1918,. denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff by being bitten by a horse on the 11th day of January, 1916, when he was about nine years of age. The defendant company, as its name implies, was engaged in the electrotyping business and in delivering the products of its factory to its customers in the borough of Manhattan, New York. In January, 1911, one McGuire made an oral contract with it by which he was to furnish a horse, a delivery wagon and his own services in delivering its goods from eight a. m. until five-thirty p. m. each working day and…
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