11 N.Y.S. 403 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1890
This action was originally brought in a justice’s court, where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant wrongfully and negligently obstructed a public highway in the town of Potter, by piling thereon a quantity of logs, by means of which her horse was injured. A trial was had in the justice’s court, which resulted in a verdict of $25 for the plaintiff. The defendant appealed to the county court, where a new trial was had, and the plaintiff obtained a verdict for $49, upon which judgment was entered, and the defendant appealed from the order of the county court denying a new trial,