Legal Ruling
In 1920 Ethel Gibletts successfully sued the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the loss of her eye after she was struck in the face by a hat which broke her glasses and a piece of glass penetrated her eye. The hat had been thrown by one of a group of young men returning from a picnic. The Supreme Court awarded her $4,500. Lawyers for the railway company argued unsuccessfully that the verdict should be set aside and that it was the man who threw the hat who for the loss of her eye should have been sued.
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