Rolfsen v. Mathisen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Arne Bolfsen, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 9th day of March, 1912, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court on a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, after a partial examination of the plaintiff and one of his witnesses.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The law forbids a master, employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection of a house, building or structure, to furnish or erect or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding which is unsafe, unsuitable or improper, or which is not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to the life and limb of the person so employed or engaged. (Consol. Laws, chap. 31 [Laws of 1909, chap. 36], § 18.) It further requires that all stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lorenzo v. FaillaceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909