Groonstad v. Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Robbins Dry Dock and Repair 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 1st day of December, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The plaintiff’s intestate was in the employ of the defendant as a. laborer.
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Appeal by the defendant, Robbins Dry Dock and Repair 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 1st day of December, 1921, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The plaintiff’s intestate was in the employ of the defendant as a. laborer. On October 19, 1918, he was engaged, with other fellow-servants, in hoisting a boiler tube from the hold of the French war cruiser…
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, P. J.:
The ringbolt, the parting of which caused the death of plaintiff’s intestate, was part of the permanent rigging of the ship. To this ringbolt was made fast the end of the steel cable which supported the defendant’s block and fall, and it proved insufficient in strength to sustain the load thereby put upon it. The duty of the master to his servant in using the permanent rigging or appliances of the ship is definitely settled by recent decisions of the courts. (Dziengelewsky v. Turner & Blanchard, Inc., 191 App. Div. 341; Liverani v. Clark & Son, Id. 337; 231 N. Y. 178.) The…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Liverani v. John T. Clark & SonNew York Court of Appeals · 1921
- Dziengelewsky v. Turner & Blanchard, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920
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