Grady v. National Conduit & Cable Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the National Conduit and Cable Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 6th day of March, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, 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
Burr, J.:
On August 15, 1910, plaintiff, an employee of defendant, was injured while engaged in installing a sprinkler system in one of its buildings. The building was about one hundred and seventy or one hundred and eighty feet in length and one story in height, with a cupola upon the top running the entire ■length thereof, upon either side of which were windows for purposes of ventilation. Within this cupola was a beam described as the “ ridge pole ” of the building. The distance *403from this ridge pole to the floor was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet. Plaintiff describes the size of…
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