Palmer v. Mayo
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the loss of the plaintiff’s horse and injury to his harness and carriage, alleged to have been caused by the negligent and unlawful acts of the defendants, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Wolfe, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $350, and appeal by the defendant Cook.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
Upon the trial to the jury in the Court of Common Pleas, the plaintiff, who conducts a livery business in New Haven, offered evidence to prove these facts: Between six and seven o’clock on the evening of May lltli, 1906, the defendant Mayo hired a horse and carriage of the plaintiff for the stated purpose of driving to East Haven on business. He did not go to East Haven, but, after driving part way there, drove to the house of one Scott, a son-in-law of the defendant Cook, and there, at about eight o’clock, permitted Cook to take the horse and carriage to drive with Scott to his, Cook’s,…
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