Drummond v. Alfred E. Norton Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Alfred E. Norton 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 16th day of April, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of April, 1912, denying the defendant’s motion for a'new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The deceased, William Drummond, was an ironworker in the employ of the defendant, a contractor for structural iron and steel work upon a building being erected by defendant. He was thirty years of age at the time of his death, earning five dollars per day and left surviving him his widow and a daughter five years of age. On November 9, 1910, about three-thirty p. m., Drummond was one of a gang of six men in charge of a foreman named Harris, when he met the accident which caused his death on November twenty-third following.
The beams of the twelfth floor had been put in position…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Knisley v. . PrattNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Shannahan v. . Empire Engineering Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Fitzwater v. . WarrenNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Dick v. Steel & Masonry Contracting Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
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- Lyles v. . Terry Tench Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Berla v. John Zambetti & D. Voepel Iron Works, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932
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