Ramsey v. National Contracting Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the National Contracting Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of April, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the lltli day of April, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon th'e minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, the National Contracting Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of April, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the lltli day of April, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon th'e minutes. This appeal was transferred from the first department to the .second department.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
■The action is for damages resulting from alleged negligence. The defendant was engaged at the time of the accident in constructing an underground trolley road through Sixth avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, New York city, having a contract for that purpose with the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. It was. also in possession of a permit from the municipal authorities conferring the privilege of placing materials upon the avenue and intersecting streets, subject, among other provisions, to the conditions-that the street should be covered with planking before such material…
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