Hyman v. Barrett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Hopkins G-. Barrett, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of November, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,800, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of November, 1914, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Dissent
Laughlin, J. (dissenting):
On the 1th day of June, 1910, the plaintiff, who was then a tenant of the defendant, occupying an apartment in a building of which he was the lessee at 804 East Fifth street, borough of Manhattan, while passing through the yard between the building in which her apartment was and another apartment building, likewise leased by defendant, was struck by a board or plank which fell from the window sill of an apartment in the building in which she lived, or from a scaffold erected by employees of *210a contractor to whom defendant had let the contract for certain repair work,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Sciolaro v. . AschNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Berg v. . ParsonsNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Snow v. . PulitzerNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Downey v. LowAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Paltey v. . EganNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
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