Silverman v. Binder
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Jacob Binder and another, doing business under the firm name of Binder & Baum, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered ill the office of the clerk of the county of Mew York on the 24th day of January, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,0e00, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of January, 1908, denying the said defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The defendants were the owners of a building in process of erection. They furnished the materials but entered into contracts with various firms to do the different kinds of work required. They made a contract with dick & Allen fof the mason work and with Levine & Posner for the iron work. .Plaintiff'was an iron-worker employed by Levine & Posner.
' Upon the day of the accident, the plaintiff and three other iron-workers were engaged in laying the iron beams upon the walls which had been built by Click & Allen, and were level with the street, about eleven feet or twelve feet high,…
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