Larsen v. Lackawanna Steel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Lackawanna Steel Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office- of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 23d day of January, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $17,500, which was reduced by stipulation to $12,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Kruse, J.:
The plaintiff, a foreman in the defendant’s employ, was caught by' an unguarded set screw projecting from a Involving *239shaft and thrown from a platform to the ground, a distance of about twelve feet, and seriously injured.
The action has been tried twice. Upon the first trial a verdict was rendered in plaintiff’s favor for $4,750, and the judgment entered thereon reversed here and a new trial ordered. (Larsen v. Lackawanna Steel Company, 138 App. Div. 375.) Upon the second trial a verdict for $17,500 was rendered, which was reduced by the trial justice to $12,000, the plaintiff having…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Dillon v. . National Coal Tar Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Larsen v. Lackawanna Steel Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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