Draper v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Rational Conduit and Cable 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 29th day. of April, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,500, and also from an order entered in said cl.erk’s office on the 4th day oi May, 1907, denying the said defendant’s motion for'' a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a statutory action* to recover for the death of Frederick . Draper, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the three defendants. A recovery has been had against all; but the National Conduit and Cable Company has appealed on a separate record.
On the 27th day of June, 1905, the decedent was in the employ of the defendant, the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, and died from injuries received while riding on a flat car through the westerly tube of the Interborough tunnel, so called^ under the Harlem river. A reel upon which cable was wound was on the flat…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Draper v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908