Downes v. Elmira Bridge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Elmira Bridge Company, Limited, 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 16th day of May, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury for $4,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of June, 1898, denying the defendant's motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The plaintiff was injured by having his leg caught between an iron girder (which the defendant was engaged in moving) and a pile •of stone, and brings this action to recover damages therefor, insisting that the act of the defendant constituted a negligent violation •of his rights, on account of which he is entitled to recover damages.
While the record is somewhat voluminous, yet the essential facts from which the rights and liabilities of the parties are to be determined are in a very narrow compass. Such as are necessary to the *340disposition of this appeal are as follows: In June,…
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