Camp v. . Wood
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, in favor of plaintiff, entered upon an order affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial and directing a judgment on a verdict. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been occasioned by defendant’s negligence. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, in favor of plaintiff, entered upon an order affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial and directing a judgment on a verdict. This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been occasioned by defendant’s negligence. The facts appear sufficiently in the opinion. Defendant owed no duty to plaintiff which obliged him to care for and protect him while in the house. (Nicholson v. Erie R. Co., 41 N. Y., 525; Southcote v. Stanley, 1 H. & N., 246; Lester v. Lantz, Sup.…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by his falling from a piazza or wooden awning, erected on the west side of the defendant’s house. The awning was constructed by laying a floor of boards upon timbers supported by irons anchored in the wall of the building and braced. It was six feet wide and twelve feet above the sidewalk, and a door at the front of the hall in the second story of the house opened upon it. The defendant kept an inn on the premises, and in the third story of the inn was a hall, which he let for public purposes. The hall was…
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