Wolf v. . American Tract Society
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 11, 1898, overruling plaintiff’s exceptions to the dismissal of the complaint against the defendant, the American Tract Society, and sustaining plaintiff’s exceptions to the dismissal of the complaint against the defendants John Downey, Louis Weber and Edward Weber, which exceptions had been ordered to be heard in the first instance by the Appellate…
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 11, 1898, overruling plaintiff’s exceptions to the dismissal of the complaint against the defendant, the American Tract Society, and sustaining plaintiff’s exceptions to the dismissal of the complaint against the defendants John Downey, Louis Weber and Edward Weber, which exceptions had been ordered to be heard in the first instance by the Appellate Division, and directing judgment in favor of said defendant, the American Tract Society, and granting a new trial as to…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The plaintiff’s action for damages resulting from personal injuries was dismissed at the trial, but the court below on appeal reversed this judgment as to all the defendants other than the Tract Society, and these defendants have appealed to this court from the judgment of reversal.
The facts established at the trial upon which the complaint was dismissed, briefly stated, were these: On the 25th of March, 1895, a large structural steel building, twenty-three stories in height, was in progress of construction by the American Tract Society near the corner of Nassau and Spruce streets in the city…
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