Krug v. American Sugar Refining Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
■ Appeal by the defendant, the- American Sugar Keñning Company, 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 3d day of March, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,250, and also from an order entered' in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of March, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a neúi trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Kioh, j.:
The plaintiff’s intestate had been employed in defendant’s sugar refinery eighteen years. His usual place of employment was on the second floor of one of the buildings,- and one of his duties was to walk through the mixer room on the first floor,'a distance of about eighty feet, twice of three times during the night,, to a place where he had to give some signal hy blowing a whistle. In going to this place it was necessary for him to pass close to a vat in which revolving rollers were operated; they were used for mixing sugar by crushing the large lumps and pieces. The top of this vat…
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