Legal Opinion
Connelly v. Rist
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 1897PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Action under the statutes to recover $5,000 for causing decedent’s death.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
There' is no controversy as to the facts. Defendants, who are partners, keep a marble sawing establishment at Nos. 456 to 466 Cherry street, New York city. Another firm, Taber & Co., hired from defendants four gangs of saws, with steam power, necessary to operate them, and in this manner Taber & Co. ran a business independent of the defendants in the defendants’ yard.
On March 24, 1890, the decedent and other employees of Taber & Co. undertook to remove some slabs which had been sawed from the marble of that firm, but found that" by reason of a large block of marble (hereinafter called for…
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