Hall v. New York Telephone Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New York Telephone Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the 28th day of December, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The plaintiff was injured in February, 1914, by the falling of a telephone pole which he and four other employees of the defendant, under the direction of defendant’s foreman, were engaged in raising in connection with the building of a telephone line from Lake George to Warrensburg, N. Y.
The pole was of green chestnut and frozen, about thirty feet in length, about nine inches through at the top, and about fourteen inches through at the butt. The morning was cold and frosty with the temperature about fifteen degrees below zero, and with eight to twelve inches of snow on the ground,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Dougherty v. . MillikenNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Ferguson v. . HubbellNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Van Wycklen v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Schutz v. . Union Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Flynn v. Boston Electric Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
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