Walsh v. Riesenberg
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Adolph Riesenberg and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office .of, the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of April, 1902, granting the .plaintiff s motion to set aside the verdict of -a jury in favor of the defendants Adolph Riesenberg and others, who were copartners. conducting business under the firm name of H. C. F. Koch & Co., and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of the court below.
Ingraham, J., dissented.
The following is the' opinion of Houghton, J., delivered at the New York Trial Term:
Houghton, J.:
The General Fire Extinguisher Company was engaged in installing a fire extinguishing apparatus in the store of the defendants Koch & Co. The apparatus required pipes of various lengths, and they were being fitted in a temporary workshop, set' apart by the defendants Koch & Co. on the sixth floor of their building. In the southwest corner of the building was an elevator used for trans*469porting freight to and from,…
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