Fried v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 18th day of July, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $85,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of July, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order dated the 18th day of June,…
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Appeal by the defendant, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 18th day of July, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $85,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of July, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and also from an order dated the 18th day of June, 1917, denying defendant’s motion made during the trial to be relieved from a stipulation made upon the first trial of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
On December 8, 1913, the plaintiff, while in the employ of defendant as foreman of a gang of electric linemen, was so burned, by coming in contact with a wire charged with 11,000 volts of electricity, that he lost both arms at the shoulder sockets and suffered other injuries. For this cause he has recovered a judgment against the defendant on a verdict for $85,000, and from the judgment defendant appeals to this court.
The complaint alleged that at the time of the accident plaintiff and defendant were engaged in interstate commerce, thereby invoking the Federal Employers’…
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