Gunhouse v. . Fraenkel
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 27, 1912, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and granting a new trial in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant.
1DissentCollin, J.
The action is to recover the damages sustained by the plaintiff through personal injuries resulting, as the plaintiff alleges, from the negligence of the defendant.
The plaintiff’s injuries came from the fall of a swinging scaffold while he was upon it painting ap advertising sign upon the exterior wall of a brick, three story building owned by the defendant. The .defendant had executed to the firm of Sholtz & Atkinson a writing by which, in consideration of the sum of ten dollars per year, payable yearly, he “leases” to them the “side wall of ” the building above referred to “for the term of…
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