Quigley v. Thatcher
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John Thatcher 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 Kings on the 9th day of December, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of December, 1910, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendants in furnishing an unsafe and improper scaffold for the use of the plaintiff in the construction of the Academy of Music in the borough of Brooklyn. The plaintiff’s testimony, and that of his witnesses, justified the jury in finding that on the 5th day of August, 1907, the plaintiff was in the employ of the Columbian Re-enforced Concrete Company, which company had the sub-contract for the re-enforced concrete work upon the Academy of Music,…
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