Chisholm v. Manhattan Railway Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the. defendant, the Manhattan Eailway 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 19th day of February, 1906, upon the verdict of a. jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of February, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minntes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff’s intestate, an employee of defendant, with others, under one Charles as foreman, was engaged at the time of the accident in installing a telephone system along defendant’s elevated railway on Third avenue in the vicinity of Seventy-second street. The telephone wires were to be contained in a lead cable which was suspended from the longitudinal girder. In placing hangers for this ' cable and in hauling it to its place the men worked from the top of the elevated structure, sometimes between the rails of the track and sometimes along • the footwalk at the side. This…
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