Haggblad v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Catherina Haggblad, as administratrix, ■ etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 18th day of June, 1906, upon, the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term. * The defendant was building a passenger platform ón one of the stations of its elevated railroad.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Catherina Haggblad, as administratrix, ■ etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 18th day of June, 1906, upon, the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term. * The defendant was building a passenger platform ón one of the stations of its elevated railroad. Long ties were being placed across • the railroad track on the longitudinal girders of the railroad structure, on which the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
Section 18 of the Labor Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 415) provides that the employers of persons to labor “ shall not furnish or erCct, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor,' scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to the life and limb of a person so employed or engaged.” It was, therefore, a question of fact for the jury whether the defendant’s method or system of placing and securing the. hoist was…
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