Rooney v. Brogan Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Margaret Rooney, as administratrix, etc., of John Rooney, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of December, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of' the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of December, 1904, denying the plaintiff’s motion…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Margaret Rooney, as administratrix, etc., of John Rooney, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of December, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of' the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of December, 1904, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
The defendant, as owner, was engaged in'the construction of a ten-story building through the instrumentality of several different independent contractors, to some of whom it furnished materials. As the work progressed' a hoisting machine Was installed in the building by a hoisting machine company, and was used by the different contractors to hoist materials, each paying the hoisting machine company by the hour or day for the use of the machine. The openings in the different floors through which .this machine was operated were entirely unguarded, in violation of section 20 of the…
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