Lyon v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.

Action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff who, in the nighttime, walked across a lot adjoining to the north land leased by the defendant and thence on to defendant’s land, where he fell into a grease pit Judgment for plaintiff reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and *789the complaint dismissed on the law, with costs. The findings of fact implicit in the verdict are reversed as against the weight of the evidence. The version of the plaintiff that he was traversing’ the lot for the purpose of obtaining a bulb at the gas station operated on defendant’s land is…