Hanselman v. Broad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louise R. Broad, 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 6th day of April, 1905," upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office-on the 13th day of April, 1905, denying the defendant’s.motion for a new trial made upon the minute's. ,
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The plaintiff was a tenant in the defendant’s tenement' house. When she-was hanging, washed clothes on-a clothes- line that ran from the window to" a clothes pole in the yard, the pole fell over arid- struck- her. She complains of the “ carelessness and negligence of the said defendant -in maintaining the' said clothes pole in - a defective and dangerous condition, liable to fall, in erecting the same improperly, and in permitting the same to become decayed and weak.” The, plaintiff, showed by a witness, who was a pile-- •' driver by trade,'that a pole left in the ground- rots at…
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