Griffin v. Pennsylvania Steel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Pennsylvania Steel Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 15th day of April, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury for $20,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
A servant has recovery against his master in that the master did not fulfill the Labor Law to furnish a safe scaffold. (See Consol. Laws, chap. 31 [Laws of 1909, chap. 36], § 18, as amd. by Laws of 1911, chap. 693.) The master was building a bridge over a city street. The scaffold was suspended from the top of the bridge by two ropes, one at either end.. It had been used for half a day by the servant as a riveter, when, in consequence of his complaint to his foreman that such ropes were worn and not safe, the servant and a fellow-servant were directed to select and to substitute…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Gombert v. . McKayNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Warren v. Post & McCordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Warren v. . Post McCordNew York Court of Appeals · 1910