Wall v. Jones
New York Supreme Court
Exceptions from circuit court, New York county. Action by Ellen Wall, administratrix of Thomas Breen, deceased, against 'B. H. Jones and another, to recover damages for the negligent killing of .plaintiff’s intestate. A verdict was directed for defendants, and plaintiff .moves for a new trial on exceptions ordered to be heard in the first instance at ■the general term.
1Per curiam
In July, 1889, the defendants were engaged in the erection ■of a building at Fourteenth street and Broadway, in the city of New York, and on the 13th of July the deceased was in the employ of the defendants, and at work upon said building, and while so employed was struck upon the *675head by a brick which fell from the upper part of that building, and killed. The claim upon the part of the plaintiff was that the injury occurred because of the negligence of the defendants, and the manner in which the work of constructing the building was carried on, in that the scaffold upon which the masons were…
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