Steel & Masonry Contracting Co. v. Reilly
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern .District of New York. Action at law by Anna M. Reilly, administratrix of Edward J. Reilly, deceased, against the Steel & Masonry Contracting Company. .Judg- . ment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern .District of New York. Action at law by Anna M. Reilly, administratrix of Edward J. Reilly, deceased, against the Steel & Masonry Contracting Company. .Judg- . ment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. On writ of error to review a judgment entered upon the verdict of a-jury for $10,500 in favor of the plaintiff for damages occasioned by the death of her husband Edward J. Reilly, due to the negligence of the defendant, in providing an insecure scaffold for the use of its employes. The judgment with interest and costs…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff’s intestate was killed by a fall from the iron framework while engaged in constructing the grand stand at the Polo Grounds in the City of New York. He was in charge of a gang of men engaged in putting into position the purlins, which are iron beams extending from truss to truss. Planking had been laid on this ironwork for the purpose of receiving the purlins, which were being brought up in slings. The roof of the grand stand slopes downward from the front- to the rear, the grade being iy2 inches to a foot. A plank between 14 and 18 feet in length, 12 inches…
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