Bellegarde v. Union Bag & Paper Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Union Bag and Paper Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Saratoga on the 28th'day of July, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of August, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff was an employee of the defendant, engaged ,in the erection of a building. The work was in charge of a superintendent who hired and discharged the men and directed their work. For the purpose of hoisting large roof timbers the , superintendent erected on the floor of the upper story a “shear "derrick.” The legs of the derrick were back a few feet from the face of the building, .and it was suspended over its edge at an angle of about forty-five degrees by a guy rope running to the rear. At the time of its erection-the superintendent’s attention was called to' the fact…
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