Stewart v. Ferguson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Thomas 0. Stewart, as administrator, etc., -of Andrew 0. Stewart, deceased, 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 23d day of June, ■1898, upon the dismissal of .his complaint by direction of- the court after a trial at the Hew York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The action was brought to recover damages for alleged negligence of the defendant which caused the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant was a contractor engaged in the construction of a. large building at Hunter’s Point, upon which the plaintiff’s, intestate was working as a bricklayer. The building had progressed until the bricklayers were at work upon.the wall between the sixth and seventh floors. A scaffold had been built at .that point upon which they were standing. While Stewart was engaged in his work there,, the scaffold gave way and he fell through five floors…
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