Quigley v. H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company and another, from a. judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 25th day of January, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of January, 1897, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
On the morning of the 8th day of February, 1896, a brick building belonging to the Phenix Chemical Works and situated on Thirty-ninth street near Second avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, was blown down in a violent storm and collapsed, causing the death of James Quigley, a cooper, who was a tenant on the ground floor. This action was brought by his administrator to recover damages for wrongfully causing his death against the Phenix Chemical Works, from which he rented the lower portion of the building, and also against the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company, which had been…
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