Cosselmon v. Dunfee
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John Dunfee and another, from a judgment Of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cayuga on the 13th day of July, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of July, 1900, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The action was brought to recover damages for injuries to the respondent, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellants. At the time of the accident, January 27, 1898, the *468appellants were canal contractors, and were engaged, at the place of the accident, in removing earth and debris from the bottom of the canal by means of a steam derrick, with boom, chain and hook ' attachments. The materials to be removed were loaded into large buckets, to the bails of which the hook at the end of the chain was attached. The respondent was an employee of the appellants,…
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