McGlynn v. Pennsylvania Steel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Pennsylvania Steel Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 26th day of May, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury for $20,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of May, 1910, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J. :
This action is brought under the Employers’ Liability Act. The defendant called no witnesses, but examined those of the plaintiff beyond the limits of cross-examination in-order to present its case. This employer was constructing a bridge to cross the East river from the borough of Manhattan, New York city, to the county of Queens, and the employee was a bridgeman who worked on the métal structure. That work required assembling a section of a steel tower, which section was called T-4, and which was 16 feet high, 6. or 7 feet wide and which weighed nearly 60 tons. On December…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Davis v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Jenks v. . ThompsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- McMahon v. McHaleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Fox v. Le ComteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Millard v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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- Juve v. Pennsylvania Steel Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911