Uggla v. Brokaw
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Isaac V. Brokaw, 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 15th day of February, 1906, upon the verdictpf a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said .clerk’s office on the 17th day of February, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff was a coachman in the employ of Mrs. Jay. On the 21st day of November, 1900, at about four o’clock in the after*588noon, while driving her horses attached to a carriage down Fifth . avenue, and when opposite1 the building at the southwesterly corner of Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, known as “Sherry’s,” he was struck by part of a. skylight blown from the top of said building and sustained-injuries to recover .for which he brings this action against the owner of the premises.
Many objections to the recovery have been urged on the appeal, but in the view I take of…
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