Berry v. Atlantic Storage Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Atlantic Storage 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 7th day of October, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury for $15,000, and also from, an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of September, 1899, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The plaintiff was in defendant’s employ on November 29, 1897, at a building known as the “ "Watson Elevator ” in Brooklyn, in which the defendant then carried on the grain business. Intrenched under the floor was a grain conveyer running through the building from street to river, a distance of over one hundred feet. This con*591veyer was of iron and consisted of a spiral drum or endless screw, which when in operation carried the grain, loaded from bins above, down into the trench or box in which the conveyer was, along its length and to the dock. At intervals above the box…
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