Wilks v. United Marine Contracting Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Wilks, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 11th day of May, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of May, 1921, denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, J.:
The plaintiff, a painter, residing in the city of New York, commenced this action against his employer, the defendant contracting corporation, organized under the laws of the State of New York, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the breaking of a scaffold furnished by defendant upon which plaintiff and another painter were working. The accident occurred between decks on a steamship moored to a dock in the city of New York. Through the collapse of the scaffold plaintiff fell to the flooring or deck, a distance of some twenty feet, and was injured. There was evidence…
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