Convey v. Finn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Convey, from an order of. the Supreme Court, made at the blew York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of blew York on the 18th day ■of March, 1908, setting aside the verdict of a jury in favor-of the plaintiff for $1,500 and granting a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
We are of opinion that tlie verdict should be reinstated. ' On the 18th day of July, 1905, the defendants, who were masons and builders, were engaged in constructing new apartment houses on premises known as bios. 7 and 9 Gleneda place, Brooklyn, and plaintiff was in their employ, and had been working on the job three or four months as a laborer, carrying mortar and wheeling *441brick to the masons. The walls had been constructed and the flooring evidently had been laid in the rooms, but not in the hallways, and the stairs had not been built. The principal work of the masons had been…
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