Kirwan v. American Lithographic Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the American Lithographic Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 26th day óf February, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of February, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghtojst, J.:
The plaintiff was in.the employ of the defendant at the .time of the accident; her duties were to bring printed pamphlets to the stitching table and put them in regular piles after they were stitched. ■ . .
The table at which she was at work was a little over two feet high and two* and a half feet wide, and was one of a series of tables upon which were wire stitching machines. A power shaft, by means of which the machines were operated, one inch and three-quarters in diameter, hung about four inches below the under side of the table, and ten or twelve inches back from its…
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