Lynch v. Bush Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by -the plaintiff, John F. Lynch, 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 March, 1903, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term. ,
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
John F. Lynch, the plaintiff in this action, commenced working for the defendant on the 1st day of April, 1901, as a longshoreman or common laborer, and on the following morning he was.set at *287work with, others in hoisting bales of licorice weighing 350 to 400 pounds, into a third-story window of the defendant’s storehouse. It appears that the hoisting was done by means of a rope passing through a pulley and operated by electricity, and it was the duty of Lynch to stand below the pulley block and as the hooks came down he attached them to two bales of the licorice and they were…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Eastland v. . ClarkeNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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