Moran v. Carlson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Conrad Carlson, 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 20th day of November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of November, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
Plaintiff’s intestate, Patrick Moran, was a laborer in the employ of Kyran A. Murphy, a contractor, who was engaged in the erection of a school building in the borough of Brooklyn. The defendant was in the hod elevator business, and furnished to the contractor a hod elevator for use in the erection of the building, together with necessary rigging, and an engine and engineer to operate the elevator. Just before the accident which caused Moran’s death, the elevator had been raised from the cellar to the first floor, where it stopped. While Moran was in the act of placing a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mills v. Thomas Elevator Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Mills v. . Thomas Elevator CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
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