Fiesel v. New York Edison Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The New York Edison Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 23d day of April, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of April, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The defendant was making repairs and alterations in the.electric installment of the stable where the deceased worked. Two wires connected the electric meter with the electric motor which ran the machinery of the .freight elevator. One was the positive, i. e., the feed, and the other the negative, i. e., the return wire, i. e., the electric current was conveyed to the motor by the one, and returned to the meter by the other, the circuit being thus formed. The workman of the defendant disconnected these two wires and replaced them with new ones. He made a mistake and reversed or…
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