Brown v. Associated Operating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Associated Operating 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 30th day of June, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,250, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of June, 1914, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
A longshoreman of thirty years’ experience, and a member of the group of laborers solely in charge of the place, fell through a hatch, the after third section of which was uncovered. He came to the between decks on the day before, and there learned of the precise conditions, which to his knowledge continued to the time of the accident, except that a tarpaulin was lowered from the after part of the open section of the hatch on the main deck to shield from rain the exposed part of the lower hatch, and canvas in a roof form was placed over the upper hatch, which *703two contrivances,…
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