Collelli v. Turner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Antonio Collelli, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk .of the county of Kings on the 26th day of February, 1912, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for the loss by the plaintiff of his left hand, while in the employ of the defendants, and engaged in operating or assisting in operating a machine used by them in embossing or stamping skins or leather. The accident happened on June 6,19 OY.
This machine consists in part, it appears, of two horizontal steel or metal plates, one over the other, some three feet square, or nearly so, and so adjusted that their faces or flat surfaces may he brought together and separated by machinery raising and lowering the under plate. The dies or stamps…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Kaare v. Troy Steel & Iron Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Powers v. . N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Shaw v. . SheldonNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Kennedy v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Welch v. Waterbury & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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