Creswell v. United Shirt & Collar Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the United Shirt and Collar Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 21st day of December, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of December, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered -in said clerk’s office on the…
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Appeal by the defendant, the United Shirt and Collar Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 21st day of December, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of December, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order entered -in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of January, 1906, amending said last-mentioned order.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The defendant is engaged in the business of making and selling shirts, collars and cuffs ■ in the city of Troy, N. Y. In such business it operates printing presses for the purpose of printing box labels. On July 1, 1904, the plaintiff, an employee of the defend*13ant, was engaged in the work of printing labels with one of said printing presses. A part of the mechanism of such press, known as the “ tlirow-off ” bar" or lever flew back and startled the plaintiff so that involuntarily he thrust his hand into some of the machinery of the press and received an injury for which he has…
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