Forbrick v. General Electric Co.
New York Supreme Court
Action for damages for negligence. Motion, for direction of a verdict for the defendant reserved until after verdict, which was for the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The defendant occupied in its business part of a building which it owned, and leased the other part to the plaintiff’s employers, who occupied it in their business. The plaintiff went into the cellar in the part used by the defendant by permission of the defendant’s janitor in charge of its premises to use the defendant’s grindstone to sharpen a plane which he was using in his work for his employers. While at this work the board cover of a bilge hole or well into which the waste hot water escaped from the defendant’s boiler near by broke under him and let his leg into the hot…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Beck v. . CarterNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Walsh v. Fitchburg RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Larmore v. . Crown Point Iron Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
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