Finney v. National Fire Proofing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The National Fire Proofing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered- in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of January, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of January, 1912, -denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a statutory action to recover for the death of Frederick L. Finney, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, in whose, employ he was. The Seaboard Realty Company was engaged in the construction of a building at the northeast corner of Eighteenth street and Fourth avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, New York, pursuant to a contract with the owner of the premises, It sublet various parts of the work. The concrete work was let to the defendant. The electric wiring, the stone work, the masonry work, the iron work, the construction of elevators, and the…
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