Johnson v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Dora Johnson, as administratrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of June, 1914, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This appeal is from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint at the close of the evidence, in an action to recover for negligence. The deceased was a painter and expert rigger in the employ of defendant’s bridge department, which was engaged in December, 1912, in painting the structural iron work of the Brooklyn bridge where it crosses Main street in the borough of Brooklyn. To reach the iron work a swinging, scaffold in two sections was constructed about thirty or thirty-five feet above and across the street of four spars, each about forty feet long, hung with a block and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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