Stenger v. Buffalo Union Furnace Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Buffalo Union Furnace 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 10th day of February, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of February, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, The Buffalo Union Furnace 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 10th day of February, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of February, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was commenced on the 25tli day of July, 1903, to recover the damages sustained by the widow and next of kin of Joseph Stenger, deceased, because of his death which occurred…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J.:
The defendant is a domestic corporation and at the time of the accident which is the subject of this action was engaged in operating a blast furnace in the city of Buffalo, N. Y. The furnace, so far as it is important to note, consisted of an iron cylinder lined on the inside with fire brick, about eighty feet in height, twelve to fourteen feet in diameter at the top or throat and at the bottom, and about twenty-two feet in diameter between those points. The material used in the production of pig iron, consisting of ore, limestone, coke, coal, etc., was conveyed in buckets up…
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- Stenger v. Buffalo Union Furnace Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Stenger v. Buffalo Union Furnace Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905