Andersen v. New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The New York and Cuba Hail Steamship Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of Hay, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of New York, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of Hay, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new…
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Appeal by the defendant, The New York and Cuba Hail Steamship Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of Hay, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of New York, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of Hay, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes and granting the plaintiff an extra allowance.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Brunt, P. J.:
The appellant is a corporation organized under the laws of this State and operating and conducting certain steamships employed in the business of carrying and conveying passengers and goods between, among other places, the port of New York and the port of Cienfuegos, Cuba. One of the vessels employed by the company was a steamship called the Gienfuegos. For a period of about twenty-two months prior to the happening of the accident which formed.the subject of this action the plaintiff had been employed as a seaman upon various steamers of the defendant, and for eight months…
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