Fahey v. New Amsterdam Gas Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New Amsterdam Gas Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 8th day of July, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of July, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
The only ground of negligence asserted is the failure to furnish plaintiff with a reasonably safe place to work. The defendant is engaged in the manufacture of gas. On the second floor of the building in which the plaintiff was employed is what is known as the generator room. It is about one hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and contains eight furnaces. At one end of the room there is a double door about six feet wide. On the outside of the building, in front of this door, was a block and fall by which material was hoisted from the ground and brought through this door into the…
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