McConnell v. Thomas & Buckley Operating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas & Buckley Operating 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 14th day of June, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the 2d day of July, 1906, the plaintiff was in the employ of the firm of Martin & Driscoll, mason contractors, working on a building in the course of construction at Nos. 420-422 West One Hundred and Sixteenth street, and sustained personal injuries through the alleged negligence of an engineer, who was in the employ of the appellant in charge of a hod-hoisting engine, in failing promptly to obey a signal to lower an elevator which was at the ninth floor and on which some empty barrows had been placed by one of plaintiff’s fellow-workmen, who then gave the signal, and in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Genovesia v. Pelham Operating Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Brauer v. New York City Interborough Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909