Young v. William Bradley & Son
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William Bradley & Son, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 3d day of March, .1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 7th day of March, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The defendant was engaged in the construction of, and the installation of machinery in, five connected stone buildings or sheds. The accident happened in a span forty feet wide and four hundred and fifty feet long, along either side of which, twenty-five feet from the floor, was a beam, eight to ten inches wide, supporting a track -upon which a traveling crane was run. The plaintiff was directed by his foreman, who had the superintendence of the carpenters, to put in some window frames. He wanted to construct a scaffold upon which to stand, but was told by said foreman to stand…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Palmieri v. S. Pearson & Son, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908