Kaiser v. Latimer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frederick B. Latimer, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in' favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 13th day of March, 1896, upon a verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of March, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, P. J. :
The. defendant, in the year 1894, was a warehouseman, owning and occupying a storage warehouse on Atlantic avenue in the city of Brooklyn, wherein the plaintiff had stored a large quantity of household goods and furniture.. In the month of April, 1894, a fire occurred in the basement of the warehouse, which caused no injury to the plaintiff’s goods, but necessitated considerable repairs to the building. One Martin Peterson entered into a contract with the defendant to do certain carpenter work, which consisted of the removal of burned timbers and beams and replacing them with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Heilman v. . LazarusNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
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- Campbell v. KleinAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906
- Kaiser v. LatimerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- Herman v. New England Navigation Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
- Aaronson v. Pennsylvania RailroadAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1898
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