McMillan v. Minetto Shade Cloth Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Minetto Shade Cloth Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff) entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Oswego on the 19th day of January, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of January, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
This is an action of negligence brought in pursuance of the Employers’ Liability Act (Laws of 1902, chap. 600), and the sole question submitted to the jury involving the negligence of the defendant *29was whether the plaintiff had been furnished a reasonably safe implement or appliance in the performance of the work he was assigned to do.
The defendant is a domestic corporation engaged in the manufacture of window shades from cotton cloth. Its' plant is located in the village of Minetto, Oswego county.
The plaintiff, a man fifty-six years of age at the time of his injury, had been in…
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- Cregan v. . MarstonNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- McConnell v. Morse Iron Works & Dry Dock Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Pelow v. . Oil Well Supply Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Hart v. Village of ClintonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Mahoney v. Cayuga Lake Cement Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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