39 N.Y. 53 | NY | 1868
The order reversing the report of the referee, does not state that it was reversed on the ground of error in fact. It must, therefore, be held to have been reversed upon questions of law merely (Code, § 272). In such case it is settled by numerous decisions, that, in its consideration in this court, all facts not expressly stated are to be assumed in support of the report, and that any fact, the reverse of which is not found by the report, may be invoked in its aid. (
It is apparent from the whole tenor of the report that such was in truth the understanding and intention of the referee. In the recent case of Passenger v. Thorburn (
In Bonadale v. Buxton, the loss of the anchor was held to be the natural result of the insufficiency of a cable sold for holding an anchor and warranted to last for two years.
In Brown v. Edgerton (2 Man. and G. 279), the loss of a pipe of wine by the breaking of a rope attached to a crane, sold for that use, was held to fall properly within the scope of damages for selling an insufficient rope to be used upon such crane.
The case of Passenger v. Thorburn is decisive of the present case.
I think the rule of damages was right, and that the order granting a new trial should be reversed, and the judgment of Special Term should be affirmed.
Order reversed. *56