Williams v. First National Bank of Utica
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the First National Bank of ITtica j N. Y., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida on the 15th' day of June, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also, from an order entered in said clerk’s .office on the 1st day of June,-1906, denying, the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The' judgment and order should be reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event!
The action was. to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff, alleged to have resulted from defendant’s negligence. The plaintiff was a carpenter, and at the time of the accident was working in the defendant’s bank building, which was being reconstructed and repaired. With another carpenter he was standing upon a plánk laid across two wooden horses engaged in putting a casing into a window frame. The plank was eight to ten feet above the floor. It broke and the two men…
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