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Ethel Gibletts
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Ethel Gibletts was a Brooklyn, New York woman who successfully sued the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the loss of her eye in 1920. The Queens County, New York Supreme Court awarded her $4,500 after she was struck in the face by a hat while she was returning from Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, on August 15, 1919. The hat belonged to one of a group of young men returning from a picnic. He threw it errantly so that it missed his companion and hit Gibletts in the glasses. A piece of glass penetrated her eye. Her injury resulted in the eye having to be removed. Lawyers for the railway company argued unsuccessfully that the verdict should be set aside. They contended that the man who threw the hat should have been sued instead. |
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