Abrahamson v. General Supply & Construction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The General Supply and Construction 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 4th day of April, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $300, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of April, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a structural iron worker, engaged with others in erecting the iron work on a building at Spring street and Broadway in the city of New York, and he brings this action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the superintendent, or óf one “ whose principal duty was superintendence and who was entrusted with and exercised such superintendence,” etc., in behalf of the defendant, the effort being to bring the plaintiff’s case within the Employers’Liability Act (Laws ’ of 1902,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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