Greco v. Pratt Chuck Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Pratt Chuck Company, from a judgment, of the Supreme Court' in- favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county.of Herkimer on.the 8th day of July, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,500, and also from two orders entered in said clerk’s office- on the 12th and i8th days' of June, 1907, respectively, denying the defendant’s motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The complaint charges the defendant with negligence both at common law and under the Employers’ Liability Act (Laws of 1902, chap. 600). The defendant is a domestic corporation operating a plant in Frankfort, Herkimer county, in which it manufactures iron chucks and nipples. On the 28th day.of August, 1904, th& plaintiff, who was an Italian unfamiliar with the use of machinery and who had been in this country for less than two months, was employed by the defendant and set to work on one of the machines . in its factory.
This machine consisted of a bed plate upon an iron table about…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Brennan v. . GordonNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Mann v. President of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Fox v. Le ComteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Strauss v. Haberman Manufacturing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lewis v. Koller & Smith, Inc.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1911