Healy v. Hallenbeck-Hungerford Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Hallenbeck-Hungerford Realty Company, 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 20th day of March, 1918, as amended under date of March 25, 1918. The judgment was entered upon the verdict of a jury. An appeal is also taken from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of March, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Shearn, J.:
Appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for $5,000 damages in an action brought to recover damages for the *750death of plaintiff’s intestate, Julia C. Healy, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in supplying, for use in its building by its tenants and their employees, water which was polluted, drawn from an artesian well sunk under the building, without the knowledge or consent of the city, from which water it is claimed plaintiff’s intestate contracted typhoid fever, as a result of which she died.
The defendant owned a large fifteen-story factory…
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