Morrissey v. Dwyer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Dwyer, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 12th day of Hay, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of Hay, ■ 1906, denying, the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minute's.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
The plaintiff’s intestate was a workman in the employ of the defendant, who was engaged in the construction of the Hall . of ¡Records in Brooklyn. At tlie time of his death he'was engaged in using a rnnway on the third floor of the in completed building. From the. elevator used to hoist building materials to the level of the third floor had been constructed a so-called runway of two planks, eighteen inches wide over all to'another part of that floor to a platform. A return runway from the. platform to the elevator similar in construction and, in width liad also been constructed and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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