Legal Opinion

People v. Duplan Silk Corp.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 7, 1924PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Duplan Silk Corporation, from a judgment of the Municipal Term of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, Part I, rendered on the 2d day of April, 1923, and entered in the office of the clerk of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York on the 4th day of April, 1923, convicting him of violating section 272 of the Labor Law of 1921 and suspending judgment on sentence. (See Penal Law, §§ 1275, 2188.)

1Opinion of the Court

McAvoy, J.:

The appellant corporation was convicted in the Municipal Term of the Court of Special Sessions on a trial before a city magistrate of a violation of subdivision 3 of section 272 of the Labor Law of 1921, which is in title 3 of article 11 thereof. The specific charge was failing to keep all the doors on the second and third floors of a tenant-factory building at 135-141 Madison avenue in the city of New York unlocked, unbolted and unfastened.

The evidence upon which the defendant was convicted was given by an inspector of the bureau of fire prevention of the fire department of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. . PhyfeNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
  2. Gibbs v. . Arras BrothersNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
  3. People v. SturgisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
  4. Hoboken Beef Co. v. HandAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. People v. SchmidtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1927
  2. People ex rel. Griffin v. Hunt, New York County Courts1934
  3. People v. GrundsteinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1930
  4. People v. MilmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1924
  5. People v. Moody, New York County Courts1954

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