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Torts · MBE-tested
Emma F. Laturen, Appellant, v. Bolton Drug Company, Limited, Respondent
188 N.Y. 574·New York Court of Appeals·1907·NY
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Opinion
Emma F. Laturen, Appellant, v. Bolton Drug Company, Limited, Respondent.
(Argued March 14, 1907;
decided April 2, 1907.)
Laturen v. Bolton Drug Co., 112 App. Div. 921, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 28, 1906, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term, and an order denying a motion for a new trial in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through defendant’s negligence in filling a prescription.
James Taylor Lewis and Edmund Fletcher Driggs for appellant.
Edwin A. Jones and Charles C. Nadal for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the sole ground that the plaintiff did not show that her injuries were the result of defendant’s mistake in changing the prescription ; no opinion.
Concur: Gray, Werner, Hiscock and Chase, JJ. Dissenting: Cullen, Ch. J., Vann and Willard Bartlett, JJ.