Davidson v. . Cornell
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the City Court of Brooklyn, entered upon an order made June 23,1890, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and also affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the City Court of Brooklyn, entered upon an order made June 23,1890, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon a verdict, and also affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants, who were engaged in the construction of a double-track elevated railway on Broadway in the city of Brooklyn. This was done by setting columns upright on either side of the street opposite each other in transverse lines…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
The immediate cause of the giving way of the girders and the fall of the structure was the subject of some contention upon the evidence.
The plaintiff’s counsel contends that it was the result of the negligent failure of the defendants to perforin their duty to their employes, in that they did not use the care imposed upon them to provide a reasonably safe structure for the men to work upon, or proper means for its support or movement for the purposes of the service required. If that proposition, in its application to the cause of the calamity in question, had the support of evidence, the…
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