Legal Opinion · Dissent

Murphy v. Ludlum Steel Co.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 15, 1918Published

Appeal by the defendant, Ludlum Steel Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 25th day of October, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.

1Dissent

John M. Kellogg, P. J. (dissenting):

The defendant has a large steel plant at Colome, N. Y., of about seventy-five acres, upon wMch are the mills, -workshops, office buildings, electric appliances, transformer house- and tenements for housing certain of the employees.

The plaintiff and her husband were employed at the office *143building and resided about 836 feet from it. In front of the plant was a road, along which, and on the defendant’s property, at the street line, was one of its electric-light wires carrying 550 volts. The husband was due at the office about eight o’clock in the morning. At…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Claim of Waters v. William J. Taylor Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
  2. Shanahan v. . Monarch Engineering Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
  3. In Re the Accounting of ZieglerNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
  4. Holcomb v. . HarrisNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
  5. Claim of Bylow v. St. Regis Paper Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917

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