Fink v. Slade
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Emmett F. Slade, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 18th day of October, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on - the 7 th day of- November, 1900, ^denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.: . .......
1Opinion of the Court
Edwards, J,:
This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff by. the alleged negligence of the defendant.
At the time of the accident the plaintiff was in the employment Of the defendant, engaged, with others, in filling defendant’s ice house on the west side of the Mohawk river above the Cohoes dam. Men had been so engaged for about two weeks before -the accident;
The ice was taken from the river and was carried, by means of an incline plane or elevator,, to the northwest corner of the house, where it was switched off upon a movable platform .from…
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