Dougherty v. Milliken
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Edward F.. Milliken and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of June, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and' also from an order entered in said clerk’s office, on the 12th day of July, 1897, denying the defendants’ motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes. *
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The defendants were engaged in steel construction, having a plant on the dock at the foot of Clinton--street, Brooklyn. The plaintiff was in their employ', under the foreman, Avery. There were two derricks on the dock, about twenty-five feet back from *387the stringpiece and sixty feet apart, one about forty feet and the other about thirty-five feet high. Each had a boom about twenty-five feet long. When the derricks were put up, a week before the accident, the guy ropes were hempen; one of those supporting the smaller derrick had been fastened to an eyebolt on the stringpiece,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- McCampbell v. Cunard Steamship Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Watts v. BeardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Tomaselli v. John Griffiths Cycle Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Kennedy v. Jackson Architectural Iron WorksThe Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo · 1895
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