Carron v. Standard Refrigerator Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Standard Refrigerator Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 2d day of February, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of January, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
This is an action for negligence. Plaintiff was injured while operating a circular rip saw in the service of defendant. The saw revolved on an axis and its blade protruded through an aperture in a table and about an inch and a half above the surface thereof. The operator standing by this table pushed the boards which were being sawed over the surface of the table and against the saw.
Plaintiff testified in substance that at the time of the accident the defendant’s superintendent directed him to saw; simultaneously three boards by placing them on top of. each other; that the saw…
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