Carey v. Manhattan Railway Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered in the City Court of the city of Rew York, after a trial before the court and a jury, and also from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
The plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as an iron worker on its elevated structure and, on the day of- the accident from which he suffered injuries, was one of a gang engaged in drilling holes directly under the top girder of the track. A foreman had previously marked the places *336at which, the holes were to be drilled. The plaintiff had been engaged in similar work in the immediate neighborhood for several days and, for about nine months, had been engaged in doing similar work on various parts of defendant’s structure, during which time the road had been operated electrically through…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Carey v. Manhattan Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906