Wilson v. New York Mills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- Appeal by the defendant, The New York Mills, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Oneida on the 23d day of June, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of June, 1904, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes..
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff’s intestate, a young man about nineteen years of age, was caught in a pulley wheel in the wheel room of the defendant’s mill on the morning of February 10, 1903, and instantly killed. He had been in the employ of the defendant about eight or nine months as assistant engineer. The pulley wheel was in one end of the wheel room, and was seven feet three inches in diameter, and
*101three feet one inch wide, carrying a three-foot belt and revolved from north to south at the rate of 156 revolutions a minute. The lower portion of the wheel revolved in a pit which was below the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Scheir v. QuirinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Scheir v. . QuirinNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Goodhines v. ChaseAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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