Krulder v. Woolverton

The plaintiff brought this action to recover the statutory amount for injuries resulting in the death of her husband, Cornelius Krulder, by reason of the alleged negligent act of defendant’s servant. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The accident happened under the following circumstances: Krulder, by direction of one James B. Carpenter, his employer, went to the ferry-house, at the foot of Liberty street, in this city, to put shades under the skylights there. While at work on the top of a step-ladder, sixteen feet high, putting a shade in the skylight over the team gangway,…