Consolidated Traction Co. v. Chenowith

The opinion of the court .was delivered by

The Chancellor.

Error is assigned, in the first place, upon the refusal of the trial court to nonsuit the plaintiff below. The proofs exhibited that the plaintiff was the driver of a hook and ladder truck belonging to the Newark fire department, which was drawn by two horses; that the distance from 'the front end of the pole to which the horses were harnessed to the rear end of the ladders, extending back of the truck, was forty-eight feet, and the weight of the truck, with its load, was about seven thousand pounds; that the driver’s seat upon the…