Devaney v. Degnon-McLean Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Degnon-HcLean Construction Company, 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 14th day of April, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of July, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover damages sustained while in the employ of the defendant, in making an excavation for an anchorage for the New East ¡River Bridge in the borough of Brooklyn. The questions presented are such as are commonly found in actions of this character, and involve questions of fact which were, upon a conflict of evidence, submitted to the jury in a charge which, we believe, carefully stated the law. The jury found in favor of the plaintiff, giving a verdict for $3,600, and the defendant appeals to this court.
The defendant urges that it was…
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