Andersen v. Thompson-Starrett Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louis Andersen, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of April, 1912, setting aside the verdict of. a jury in favor of the plaintiff for $1,000 and granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Plaintiff on July 25, 1910, was employed by J. F. Blanchard & Co. as a carpenter on a building in course of erection at 535 Park avenue, New York .city, for which his employers were sub-contractors, the defendant being the main contractor. At about nine-forty A. M. of that day he was engaged in setting the jamb of an elevator door on the thirteenth floor of the building, in a kneeling position, with his right hand inside the elevator shaft, hammering nails to attach the jamb to the framework of the door, the nails being held in his left hand. While so engaged the elevator…
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