Legal Opinion

O'Leary v. Atlantic Amusement Co.

New York Supreme Court

Decided April 2, 1926Published

1Opinion of the CourtHagarty, J.

The plaintiffs move for orders setting aside the verdicts rendered by the jury in favor of the defendant and for a new trial, on the ground that they have discovered perjury in a part of the defendant’s testimony. The plaintiff Mae C. O’Leary was injured in the defendant’s amusement park at Coney Island on the 3d day of July, 1923, while she was a patron of an attraction *312known as “ The Whirlpool.” The second action is brought by her husband. The cases were tried in December, 1924.

Defendant’s negligence was predicated by the plaintiffs upon the faulty construction of the attraction in that…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Loftus v. . Union Ferry Company of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
  2. Brady v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
  3. Gillrie v. . City of LockportNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
  4. Morrow v. . Westchester Electric Railway CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
  5. Hansen v. VogelsangAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910

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