Casualty Co. of America v. A. L. Swett Electric Light & Power Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Cross-appeals by the defendant, A. L. Swett Electric Light and Power Company, and by the plaintiff, Casualty Company of America, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orleans on the 6th day of June, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.
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Cross-appeals by the defendant, A. L. Swett Electric Light and Power Company, and by the plaintiff, Casualty Company of America, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orleans on the 6th day of June, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court. The defendant further appeals from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of June, 1916, denying its motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
De Angelis, J.:
James A. Robinson, an employee of Matthew A. Ryan, was killed on the 4th day of November, 1914, in the village of Albion by an electric current which proceeded from the defendant’s primary electric wires with which he came in contact.
Ryan, the employer, was insured under the Workmen’s Compensation Law in the plaintiff. Robinson’s widow elected to take the benefit of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, made the' required assigmnent of the cause of action against the defendant to the plaintiff, procured an award against the plaintiff for herself and children and had been paid by the…
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