Grotzky v. Rosary Flower Co.

61 Misc. 99, 113 N.Y.S. 117

• Court: Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
• Decided: November 15, 1908
• Status: Published

Opinions

Per Curiam.

The action is for personal injuries.- The complaint was dismissed. Plaintiff appeals. The facts are substantially as follows: At seven thirty p. m.', on Hovember 30, 1907, near 73 Allen street, the plaintiff, an infant of three years and ten months, was playing ball with another child on the sidewalk. The ball rolled into the street and plaintiff went to get it. He was returning and had almost reached the sidewalk when defendant’s wagon rar over him and caused the injuries complained of. When the horse was about one house or over twenty-five feet awaj from the spot where the child stood, some one called to defendant’s driver to stop. He failed to pay any attention to this warning and although there was sufficient light to enable him to see the child, and notwithstanding he had sufficient time to stop his horse and avoid the accident, he continued his course and ran over the child. The questions of defendant’s negligence and plaintiff’s contributory negligence were for the jury, and it was error to dismiss the complaint. See Dehmann v. Beck, 61 App. Div. 505; Kennedy v. Hills Bros. Co., 54 id. 29.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide the event.

Gildersleeve and Seabury, JJ., concur.