Cooper v. Jordan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edward Jordan, from a judgment of the Municipal. Court of.the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff, rendered on the 27th day óf May, 1909, in an action brought to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant’s foreman in failing to inspect materials given the plaintiff for his work, and also from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The plaintiff is an experienced frazer, and at the time of the accident had been in the defendant’s employ some five months, during which time his work had consisted in frazing canes and umbrella handles. The machine upon which he worked is described as a convex steel disk, fastened in the center to a steel shaft, the disk revolving with the shaft. In the outward surface of the disk ridges or teeth were cut, against which the operator held the cane or handle to be frazed, the teeth smoothing it. Upon such a machine, and in this kind of work, the plaintiff had been employed between…
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