Duke v. American Museum of Natural History
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The American Museum of Natural History, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of December, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of December, 1912, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Appeal from a judgment on a verdict of a jury in the sum of $12,500, for damages claimed to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of defendant’s negligence. The action is brought under the Employers’ Liability Law. (See Labor Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 31; Laws of 1909, chap. 36], art. 14, as amd. by Laws of 1910, chap. 352.)
On December 15, 1910, the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a carpenter, and had been so engaged for two years and five months. On that day it was sought to change from a vertical to a horizontal position a certain exhibit consisting of a…
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