Geer v. New York & Pennsylvania Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal "by the plaintiff,. Ida B. Geer, as sole administratrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chemung on the 19th day of November, 1910, upon the dismissal of fhe complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Chemung Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new.trial made upon the-minutes.
1Dissent
Betts, J. (dissenting):
■ Plaintiff’s intestate, Guy B. Geer, thirty-four years old, .was by trade a woodturner. He went to work for the defendant about two years and nine months previously to his death, working as a helper for about ■ six or nine months and then became a cable splicer and worked in different places with his headquarters in Elmira receiving twelve dollars a week. He did cable work overhead and underground and commenced working in Elmira on Tuesday, as he was killed on Friday. He had never worked for any company that manufactured or distributed electricity and during the twelve…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Braun v. . Buffalo General Electric Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Freeman v. Glens Falls Paper-Mill Co.New York Supreme Court · 1891
- Dwyer v. Buffalo General Electric Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Raab v. Hudson River Telephone Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910