Murphy v. Rochester Telephone Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Rochester Telephone Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 29th day of May, 1923, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,400, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of June, 1923, denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
The plaintiff, a lineman, was injured when a pole owned by defendants upon which he was at work broke and fell. He has a judgment for damages against both defendants.
The plaintiff was employed by the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, hereinafter referred to as the Gas Corporation. Prior to 1917 the pole was owned and maintained jointly by said corporation and the two defendants pursuant to a contract, the material terms of which will be presently stated. In 1917 this pole was broken off at the ground line. The part apparently decayed was cut off and the pole was then reset by…
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