Ellefson v. Singer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Isaac Singer, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York in favor of the plaintiff rendered on June 15, 1908.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The claim of the plaintiff was that the person who threw the board from the roof of the defendant’s tenement house to the yard below and injured the plaintiff’s wife, who was a tenant of the adjoining house, wás the janitor of the said. tenement house. It may be assumed that it was preyed by the defendant that she was not his janitor, but that she was employed by the janitor to do his work without the knowledge or consent of the defendant-; nevertheless the defendant would be liable for her negligent acts in such work. The familiar case of the servant set to woi'k to shovel snow…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Althorf v. . WolfeNew York Court of Appeals · 1860
- Wellman v. MinerAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1897
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