Whallon v. Sprague Electric Elevator Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Sprague Electric Elevator Company, 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 1st day of June, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Kings County Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of June, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The action is, servant against master, to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. It appears from the evidence that the “Postal Telegraph Building ” was in the course of erection in the city of New York. The defendant was engaged in the .construction of the elevators in that building. The plaintiff was a workman in defendant’s employ and had worked about the building for some weeks. On the occasion of the accident he was sent to the seventh story of the building with one Cantlion, a millwright, also in the defendant’s employ,…
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