Legal Opinion
Caspersen v. La Sala Bros.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 6, 1930PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
Plaintiff, a servant of the Otis Elevator Company, was installing an elevator in a building then in course of construction. Beside the elevator well was a shaft for a stairway. The shaft was not visible, however, on the ground floor where the plaintiff was at work, except by lifting up one’s eyes and looking to the floors above. There was nothing to mark its presence to the casual observer. Far up in the shaft, on the t nth or eleventh floor, masons, working on a scaffold, were using tiles and bricks. One of the bricks, falling from the scaffold, struck the plaintiff on the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Coughtry v. . Globe Woolen Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Hess v. Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
- De Lee v. T. J. Pardy Construction Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Garland v. TownsendMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Doremus v. AuerbachAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
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3Cited by63 opinions
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- Iacono v. Frank & Frank Contracting Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1932
- Haefeli v. Woodrich Engineering Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1931
- Wohlfron v. Brooklyn Edison Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1933
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