Keyser v. Reid-Palmer Construction Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the City Court of the city of ¡New York, entered on a verdict in plaintiff’s favor and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtHotchkiss, J.
This action was brought under section 200 of the employer’s liability clause of the Labor Law, as amended by chapter 352, Laws of 1910. While plaintiff was standing on a scaffold nailing furring strips to the ceiling, the scaffold collapsed, throwing him to the floor, and causing him serious injury. The scaffold was a portable affair consisting of planks resting upon “ horses.” The only witness who pretended to speak positively as to the cause of the accident, swore that it was due to the splitting of a brace on one of the “ horses ” at the place where the brace was nailed to the “ horse.”…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Caddy v. . Interborough Rapid Transit Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Kimmer v. . WeberNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Silverman v. BinderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
3Cited by2 opinions
- Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. OzmunSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1944
- Keyser v. Reid-Palmer Const. Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913