Opinion · New York Court of Appeals
Hawkes v. Goll
Hawkes v. Goll, 281 N.Y. 808 (New York Court of Appeals 1939)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- New York Court of Appeals
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Date
- 1939-11-14
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- opining that two defendants, who separately injured plaintiff while driving different cars could be joint tortfeasors, even though their wrongful actions “were not precisely concurrent”
- “While the wrongful acts of the two defendants were not precisely concurrent in point of time, the defendants may nevertheless be joint tort feasors [sic] where, as here, their several acts of neglect concurred in producing the injury.”
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Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Crane, Ch. J., Lehman, Hubbs, Loughran, •Finch and Rippey, JJ. Taking no part: O'Brien, J.