Wear v. Metropolitan Jockey Club

Full title: JAMES WEAR, Respondent, v. METROPOLITAN JOCKEY CLUB, Appellant

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Oct 31, 1963

194 N.E.2d 689 (N.Y. 1963)

194 N.E.2d 689

244 N.Y.S.2d 780

Opinion

Argued October 9, 1963

Decided October 31, 1963

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, JOSEPH A. SUOZZI, J.

Lillian E. Cuff and George V. Conway for appellant.

Robert M. Reagan, G.G. Rosenberg and L.M. Rosenberg for respondent.

Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE and FOSTER. Judges VAN VOORHIS and SCILEPPI dissent and vote to reverse upon the authority of Marshall v. City of New York ( 308 N.Y. 836), Borshowsky v. Altman Co. ( 280 App. Div. 599, affd. 306 N.Y. 798) and Gasper v. Ford Motor Co. ( 13 N.Y.2d 104).