Johnson v. Phœnix Bridge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Phoenix Bridge Company, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, made át the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of tlm county of Erie on the 30th day of 'March, 1909, as directs the amendment of the summons and complaint herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The defendant is a foreign corporation, and in the summer of 1907 was engaged in the construction of a bridge across the St. Lawrence river in the province of Quebec, Canada.' On the 29th day of August, 1907, the bridge collapsed, and John E. Johnson, an employee of said corporation, with many other fellow-workmen, was killed in the .catastrophe.
The decedent, who died intestate, residing in the city of Buffalo, left him surviving his widow, Mary E. Johnson, a father and two infant children. Letters of administration were issued to the plaintiff by the Surrogate’s Court of Erie…
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