Wenzel v. Patrick Ryan Construction Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Patrick Ryan Construction Corporation, 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 28th day of December, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $8,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of January, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused in consequence of the defendant’s negligence, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.
The accident occurred on the Long Island side of the East river, where the defendant was doing the concrete work connected with the building of piers for a railroad bridge across the river. The deceased had been in defendant’s employ about nine days preceding the accident, as brakeman on a train composed of an engine and one or two…
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- Seyford v. Southern Pacific Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
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