Mullen v. Louis C. Frees Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis 0. Frees Construction Company, Inc., 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 29th day of May, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of June, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This action was brought under the Employers’ Liability Act (Labor Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 31; Laws of 1909, chap. 36], art. 14, as amd. by Laws of 1910, chap. 352).
Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant -as a laborer, and on December 6, 1913, was working for it on a building then in course of construction at One Hundred and Fortieth street and • Third avenue, in the city of New York. He was engaged with four other men in lowering beams from the roof to the ground floor of the building, and at the time of the accident was stationed on a plank which stretched across the open*501ing…
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- Simpson v. Foundation Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Bertolami v. United Engineering & Contracting Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Shatrau v. . SullivanNew York Court of Appeals · 1911