Conroy v. Acken
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal.by the defendants, Samuel I. Acken and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 4th day of May, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court for $12,000, and also froiman order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of May, 1904, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The facts in this case are not in dispute to any great extent, and may be summarized as follows:
The plaintiff’s intestate was engaged as a laborer by the defendants, and was employed on the first floor of the new Eagle building in the borough of Brooklyn at the time of the accident. The Pelham Operating Company had installed an elevator in this building, which was in course of construction by the defendants, and this elevator was operated by an engineer supplied by the Pelham Company, taking his signals for starting and stopping the, same from the employees of the defendant, in…
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- Koch v. FoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Mairs v. . Baltimore Ohio R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
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- Shields v. Paul B. Pugh & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907