Bogendoerfer v. Jacobs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the plaintiff, Conrad Bogendoerfer, for a new trial upon a ease containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Queens County Trial Term. '
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschbeeg, P. J.:
The plaintiff was injured by the fall, of a freight elevator in a building belonging to the defendíant. The building consisted of five floors which were leased to various tenants, and the plaintiff was at work as a journeyman carpenter for the tenant of the top floor. While the plaintiff was engaged with an assistant in placing some lumber upon the elevator in order to lower it to the ground floor, the elevator suddenly fell and one of the counterweights tunning in an open' groove broke from its cable and, striking the plaintiff, severed his arm and inflicted -other…
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