Pluckham v. American Bridge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles Pluckham, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office" of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of July, 1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of July, 1904, denying the plaintiff’s motion fór a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The plaintiff was an ironworker in the employ of the defendant. The accident which produced the injury complained of was caused by the breaking of a rope. The defendant was engaged in the construction of a building upon a lot running through the block from Seventy-fourth to Seventy-fifth street, near Avenue A, in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York. In the course of such *406- construction it became necéssary to mgve seven iron beams about twenty feet long by' ten' inches Wide and weighing from two to three tons. The contrivance which was made use of for this purpose was called a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Pantzar v. . Tilly Foster Iron Mining Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Benzing v. . Steinway and SonsNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Vogel v. . American Bridge Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Stringham v. . StewartNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
3Cited by11 opinions
- Pellish Bros. v. CooperWyoming Supreme Court · 1934
- Dugan v. American Transfer Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
- Mississippi Road Supply Co. v. HesterMississippi Supreme Court · 1939
- Kaufman v. . HopperNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Beauregard v. New York Tunnel Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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