Thompson v. Town of Bath
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Town of Bath, from' a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of. the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Steuben on the l-6th day of June, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Reuse, J.:
The action is to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from the faulty construction of a highway bridge as the plaintiff contends and as the jury found.
The plaintiff was hurt in this way: He was leading a blindfolded cow along the highway. When about the middle of the bridge in *332question the cow attempted to turn around and go back or get off the bridge at the side. The plaintiff was at her left side holding in one hand the rope by which.he was leading or driving her and in the other a switch with which he was urging her -to go forward. She turned to the right (the upstream…
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- Wallace v. Town of New AlbionAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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