Strauss v. Haberman Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Haberman Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 26th day of March, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of April, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while working in the defendant’s factory in November, 1895. The plaintiff was operating a steam stamping machine used for making small tin covers, and while so engaged his hand was caught and three fingers were cut off. The plaintiff had been at work in the factory only two'or three days when he was set at work on this machine by Tice, the. defendant’s foreman. The machine has two corresponding dies, male and female. The upper die is set on the bottom of a cylinder, which has a vertical…
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