Sharpsteen v. Salt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Livonia Salt and Mining Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in fayor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Livingston on the 8th day of May, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Livingston Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, the Livonia Salt and Mining Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in fayor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Livingston on the 8th day of May, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Livingston Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of June, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $8,000 for personal injuries alleged to have been received in a salt mining shaft belonging to the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
The defendant, the Livonia Salt and Mining Company, was engaged in sinking a shaft to the salt deposit in'the town of Livonia, in Livingston county, for the purpose of mining salt, in the. summer and spring of 1891. The shaft was sunk mainly through the solid rock, which was removed by blasting into fragments and being hoisted and carried away. Then the usual timbers were put in. The dimension of ■ the shaft inside of the timber was ten by twenty feet, the longest dimension running north and south. On the 9th of July, 1891, on the day-the plaintiff was injured, the shaft had *146been…
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