Jessup v. Platt
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York, borough of Manhattan, ninth district, rendered in favor of the plaintiff for one cent damagés ¡and costs.
1Opinion of the CourtGuy, J.
This action is brought to recover damages resulting from the alleged negligence of the defendant, a common carrier, in withholding and failing to promptly deliver a golf club, which was delivered by plaintiff to defendant at Montrose, Penn., to be forwarded to a consignee in the city of Hew York, for the purpose of immediate repair and prompt redelivery to the plaintiff.
Plaintiff testified that on the 15th day of July, 1911, he broke his Tom Morris cleek, a club which had been shaped to suit his peculiar idiosyncrasies as a golf player, in the use of which club he had attained great…
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