Heffron v. Lackawanna Steel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles F. Heffron, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 7th day of August, 1905, granting the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict of a . jury theretofore rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles F. Heffron, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 7th day of August, 1905, granting the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict of a . jury theretofore rendered in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff was injured by falling through an opening in the floor of defendant’s steel mill, and recovered a verdict of $5,500 at the Trial Term, and a motion was made, to set it aside on all the grounds specified in section 999 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The motion was…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The defendant is the owner of a large steel plant in the town, of West Seneca, near the city of Buffalo. In April, 1903, the plaintiff was an- ironworker in its employ, and had been one of its employees since a mere lad. On the fourth of April he was engaged with a helper in drilling holes in angle irons in the tapping, room, of its steel mill, which was a building 240 feet by 60, four stories high, and one of the hi any buildings comprising the extensive plant of the defendant. The work of drilling was done with a hand ratchet' drill, and an iron implement, called án “old man” was…
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