Chinn v. Ferro-Concrete Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Ferro-Concrete Construction Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 25th day of March, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,000, and from said judgment as corrected and amended by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of April, 1911, and also from an order entered on the 25th day of March, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Ferro-Concrete Construction Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 25th day of March, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,000, and from said judgment as corrected and amended by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of April, 1911, and also from an order entered on the 25th day of March, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1DissentMcLennan, P. J.
The accident which is the subject of this action occurred on the 31st day of July, 1909, at about ten o’clock a.,m. At the time and for a considerable period prior thereto, the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a common laborer arid it was engaged in constructing a large reinforced concrete building in the city of Rochester, N. T. In the erection of such building the defendant employed several hundred men, riiany of them being skilled and expert mechanics and being specially trained to carry on by the most approved method the different parts of the work. There was also employed a…
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