Jones v. Niagara Junction Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Niagara Junction Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 19th day of January, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of January, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made puon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The "action was brought to recover damages suffered by the plaintiff because of the defendant’s negligence. The buildings of the Union Carbide "Works were situated near the tracks of the defendant, and one track was laid close in front of the works so that mate*608rial could be loaded directly from the buildings into the railroad cars. The plaintiff was in the employ of the carbide company, and on the day of the accident was engaged in wheeling carbide in a wheelbarrow over a plank extending from one of the buildings into a car upon the track. While the plaintiff was at this work and…
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