Welsh v. Cornell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Aureal hy the plaintiff, James Welsh, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of February,, 1898, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial before the court and a jury at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the employment of the defendant, and under the following circumstances: On September 25, 1895, he was engaged in carting iron beams and in unloading them at a storage yard of the defendant. He and three other men had taken a load of beams to the yard and were engaged in removing them from a truck and piling them up when the accident by which he was injured occurred. The place in the yard at which he was working was under a guy rope, an appurtenance to a large stationary derrick used by the…
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