Genovesia v. Pelham Operating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the Pelham Operating Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff,, entered in the office - of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of June, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury, for $7,000, and also from an order entered' in said clerk’s office on-- the 19th day of June, 1908, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J. :
The plaintiff’s intestate was in the employ of the defendant George Yassar’s Son & Co., who was engaged in constructing a building in the city of New York, and while thus employed he sustained injuries which resulted in his death. His administratrix served notice on George. Yassar’s Son & Go. under the Employers’ Liability Act (Laws of 1902, chap. 600) stating that the deceased was caused and permitted to fall from an open, unguarded and unprotected elevator through an open, unguarded and unprotected elevator shaft, hoist' or hatchway, caused by the elevator or hoist being…
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