Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1903

Ciuffi v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Ciuffi v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 18, 1903 · Freedman
84 N.Y.S. 918 (New York Supplement)

Counsel

Henry A. Robinson, Bayard H. Ames, and F. A. Gaynor, for appellant., Goepel & Wahle and Chas. G. F. Wahle, for respondent.

Ciuffi v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court

FREEDMAN, P. J.

Although both the plaintiff and the driver of the wagon were employed by the same master, they were not, while riding on the wagon, engaged in a common enterprise. The plaintiff had not the slightest control over the driver, nor did he assume to influence him in a way which led to the collision.. The case is not one in which it can be held that the plaintiff is chargeable, as matter of law, with the negligence of the driver as a comrade engaged in a common enterprise, and no request was made to submit the question to the jury as one of fact. The exceptions taken are without merit. ,

The judgment and order should be affirmed, with costs. All concur.

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