Foster v. B. I. Crooker Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The B. I. Crooker Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 3d day of March, 1910, upoh the verdict of a jury for $7,500 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of March, 1910, as resettled by an order entered on the 25th day of March, 1910, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial and to set aside .the direction of a…
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Appeal by the defendant, The B. I. Crooker Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 3d day of March, 1910, upoh the verdict of a jury for $7,500 ; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of March, 1910, as resettled by an order entered on the 25th day of March, 1910, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial and to set aside .the direction of a court dismissing the complaint as to the defendant The Wickwire Steel Company; also from .an order entered on the 14th…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The action is negligence in pursuance of the Employers’ Liability Act (Laws of 1902, chap. 600; revised by Labor Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 31; Laws of 1909, chap. 36], § 200 et seq.). In June, 1908, the plaintiff was employed by the defendant Crooker Company as a carpenter in the construction of a steel building owned by the defendant Wickwire Steel Company in the town of Tonawanda. The building was over two hundred feet long and nearly fifty feet'-in width. About fifty feet from the floor on each side of the building for it's entire length was an iron girder about eighteen inches…
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- Ehrgott v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Finnigan v. New York Contracting Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Logerto v. . Central Building Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Bertolami v. United Enginering & Contracting Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Martin v. Walker & Williams Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1910
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- Waters v. City of MorgantownWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1931
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