Wilson v. American Bridge Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the American Bridge 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 5th day of February, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of February, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff was seriously injured on the 5th day of June, 1901, by hot water and steam discharged from a pipe which projected through the foundation wall of the defendant’s building, and he has commenced this action charging the defendant with negligence. The defendant is a manufacturing corporation and its plant lies contiguous to the premises of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the city of Buffalo. Across these lands a switch track extends, and patrons of the road have been in the habit of going upon the lands next to the track for the purpose of loading freight. There was…
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- Driscoll v. Newark & Rosendale Lime and Cement Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1868
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