Austin v. Fisher Tanning Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Fisher Tanning Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus on the 9th day of January, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $3;000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of January, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Stover, J.:
Plaintiff’s intestate died as the result, of an accident which occurred at the defendant’s tannery at the village of Salamanca on November 22, 1900.
The machine upon which the accident occurred was known as a *552fleshing machine. It consisted of a steel drum, supported upon standards at each end, covered with rubber and wire about one and one-fourth inches thick, about five or six feet in length, four feet" in diameter, with an opening of about one-quarter of its circumference. Through the center of the drum was a shaft to which the drum was attached by arms ; at one end was a drive…
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