Hartman v. Clarke
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Thomas A. Clarke and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 28th day of April, 1904, upon- the verdict of a jury for $500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of April, 1904, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The plaintiff was at plumbing work" on the third floor of a building under construction. The defendants were the contractors for the iron work therein. They had set up vertical iron bars from floor to ceiling in front of the open elevator shaft, which were called channel bars, and which were designed to hold the fire bricks making the “final wall” of the shaft. At the time of the accident a scaffold six feet above the floor, laid upon, wooden supports called *64horses, extended from thó Wall twenty feet across the room, so close to the elevator shaft as to leave but a narrow spaice. ’…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McKenzie v. Waddell Coal Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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- Brust v. J. T. Perkins Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906