Evans v. Eastman Kodak Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Eastman Kodak Company, 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 23d day of June, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,974, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff, a servant, has sued his master in negligence at common law to recover for personal injuries sustained January 10, 1906, while in its employ.
The defendant is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of photographic supplies in the city of Rochester. The plaintiff, a young man nineteen years of age at the time of the accident, had been in the employ of the defendant for about two years. He had worked in various departments of defendant’s manufactory, and among others in the black paper coating department and upon a machine called the shrinker, at which he was working…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Knisley v. . PrattNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Vogel v. . American Bridge Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Madigan v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Mahoney v. Cayuga Lake Cement Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Flet v. Hunter Arms Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
3Cited by1 opinion
- Evans v. Eastman Kodak Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909