Eckes v. Stetler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jacob Eckes, from a judgment of the ¡Supreme Court in favor of the defendant Ilenry I. Stetler, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 25th day of April, 1904, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court as to the said Henry I. Stetler, upon the opening of plaintiff’s counsel on a trial at the Hew York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged, to have been sustained by the plaintiff on account of the negligence of the defendants in leaving open certain hatchways, which, under the law, the defendants were obligated to keep closed. In substance the complaint avers that the defendants were the lessees and in full control of the building wherein the accident occurred; that the plaintiff was a íireman, a member of the uniformed force of the city of Hew York, and that upon the 5th day of September, 1897, he was in the building occupied by the defendants, as…
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