Ryan v. . Wilson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Hew York, entered upon an order made Hay 16, 1879, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon an order dismissing the complaint on trial. (Reported below, 13 J. & S. 273.) This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained through defendant’s negligence.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Hew York, entered upon an order made Hay 16, 1879, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon an order dismissing the complaint on trial. (Reported below, 13 J. & S. 273.) This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained through defendant’s negligence. Defendant was the owner of a building in the city of Hew York, fitted with machinery on each floor, run by steam power; this was furnished by means of a perpendicular revolving shaft extending up through each…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The case seems a very clear one for the defendant. ' He owned the building in which the plaintiff was injured, but the room where the accident occurred had been rented to one Little, who was then in its possession as tenant. The plaintiff was in Little’s employ. Steam power and the use of machinery was furnished by the defendant, but the plaintiff was not harmed while using it, nor by its insufficiency for the purpose for which it was designed. She came in contact with it and was overcome.' She did not approach it, or even come upon the premises, at the express, or implied invitation of the…
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