Byrnes v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph A. Byrnes, 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' 15th day of April, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial before the court and a jury at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff in this action is a carpenter, and was employed by the defendant in the rebuilding of car stables at Flatbush and Vernon avenues," on the 30th day of September, 1896. He was under the immediate direction of Richard Hall, who was also in the employ of the defendant, and was at work upon a ladder in front of the car stables,: the ladder standing near one of the tracks leading out of the stables. At the same time a young man by the name of Freeman was •engaged in cleaning out the debris which had accumulated while the-rebuilding was going on, and for the purpose of…
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