Bell v. Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, Heat & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, .entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 9th day of April, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of May, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The action is for damages for alleged negligence in causing the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. The deceased was in the employ of the defendant as a fireman,.' and at the time of the accident which caused his death had been in such service about seven years. The ' defendant had in its power house a horizontal tubular boiler of the Babcock & Wilcox make. In this style of boiler the water is in the tubes. ' At the ends of the tubes there are caps fastened to the tubes each by a bolt and nut, so that they may be removed and the tubes opened whenever desired. From time to time it…
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