Legal Opinion

Reilly v. Atlas Iron Construction Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1896PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, the Atlas Iron Construction Company, 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 15th day of June, 1895, upon the. verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the. Kings County Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of July, 1895, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

1Opinion of the Court

Pratt, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict of a jury awarding damages to plaintiff for personal injuries and also from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff was employed by P. J. Castin & Co., who were engaged in the construction of a building on Fulton street, in the city of Brooklyn, on the 15th of September, 1892.

The defendants were engaged in putting up the iron frame work on the building and had nearly or quite finished placing the iron beams for the first floor of the building.

*364. There was a.pile of bricks resting upon a platform of'planks on the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Reilly v. Atlas Iron Const. Co.New York Supreme Court · 1894

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Guldseth v. CarlinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
  2. Smith v. BradyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
  3. Bill v. New York Expanded Metal Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
  4. Cotton v. HengerCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1958
  5. Bill v. New York Expanding Metal Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901

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