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180 A.D. 225

Emery v. McCombs

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1917-11-16

Appeal by the defendant, William F. McCombs, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 20th day of January, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of January, 1917, denying appellant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

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Decided 1917-11-16

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Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1940

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Jenks, P. J.:

¶1The action is for negligence in the driving by defendant Connell of a motor car owned by defendant McCombs. Connell was the keeper of a garage, and McCombs theretofore had put the car in the possession of Connell, either as a prospective buyer of the car, or of a factor or sales agent. At the time of the casualty Connell was driving the car for demonstration. There was no relation of.master and servant or any other relation shown that justified the imputation of Connell’s negligence to McCombs. The defendant Connell did not appeal from the judgment. As to the defendant McCombs, the majority of my associates vote to dismiss the complaint, but Mr. Justice Putnam and I vote for a new trial.

¶2The judgment and order should be reversed and-the complaint dismissed, with costs, as to defendant McCombs.

¶3Thomas, Mills and Blackmar, JJ., concurred; Putnam, J., concurred for reversal; Jenks, P. J., and Putnam, J., voted for a new trial.

¶4Judgment and order reversed and complaint dismissed, with costs, as to the defendant McCombs.

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