Thompson v. Levering & Garrigues
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Agnes Thompson, as administratrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of October, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of November, 1911, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The action is for damages resulting from the death of plaintiff’s intestate. It was brought under the Employers’ Liability Act.
Deceased was an ironworker engaged in riveting on a building in course of construction. He was of a gang of four men working on a scaffold. This scaffold was erected by the men themselves out of materials furnished by defendant. It would be erected at one column, and when the work there was finished would be moved to the next column. The scaffold was made by suspending needle beams, one on each side of the column, to the steel floor beams so. that the needle…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Boyle v. Degnon-McLean Construction Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Caboni v. GottAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
3Cited by2 opinions
- Ramsdell v. GoumisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1915
- Thompson v. Levering & Garrigues Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914