Shaw v. Rothschild Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Rothschild Realty 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 22d day of November, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of December, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action in behalf of an employee against his employer to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by negligence. The plaintiff charged both a failure of common-law and statutory duty.
The. plaintiff became eighteen years of age on the 25th of August, 1911, and in the fore part of the following month he entered the employ of the defendant at its sixteen-story loft building Nos. 79-83 Fifth avenue, borough of Manhattan, New Y ork. Plaintiff testified that he was hired at thirty-five dollars per month by one Reid, the assistant engineer in charge at the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Knickerbocker v. General Railway Signal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1913