Coleman v. Ruggles-Robinson Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ruggles-Robinson Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of December, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $9,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of January, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, Ruggles-Robinson Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of December, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury for $9,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of January, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The complaint was dismissed as to the defendant Thomas & Buckley Operating Company at the close of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J.:
The action was brought under the Labor Law. The appellant was the general contractor for the erection of a high building of steel construction, and the plaintiff’s intestate was a workman in its employ. For the use of itself and its subcontractors, indiscriminately, as them needs might require, defendant had installed a double hod hoist to hoist building material to the various floors. These hoists were bought from and installed by a responsible concern who made a specialty of such work, and were of a type in common use. Each hoist consisted of an open platform with a vertical…
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