Meehan v. Atlas Safe Moving & Machinery Truckage Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary L. Meehan, as administratrix, etc.,of Janies Meehan,’ deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of January, 1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The accident which occurred in this case resulted in the death of plaintiff’s intestate and the action is brought to recover damages upon the averment that the death was due to the negligence of the defendant. It appeared that for a number of years prior to.the 22d day of April, 1903, the day upon which the accident occurred, the plaintiff’s intestate had been in the employ of the defendant as a foreman and had been engaged in the business of moving safes. At the time of the accident plaintiff’s intestate was engaged in hoisting a safe from the sidewalk into the second story of a…
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