Swarts v. R. M. Wilson Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
. Appeal by the defendant, The E. M. Wilson Manufacturing Company, 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 1st day of December, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of December, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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. Appeal by the defendant, The E. M. Wilson Manufacturing Company, 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 1st day of December, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of December, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was commenced on the 4tli day of January, 1905, to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in defendant’s employ, alleged to have been caused…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J.:
The defendant is a corporation engaged in manufacturing bathroom 'supplies at the city of Borne, B. Y. On the 18th day of December, 1902, the plaintiff was in defendant’s employ, engaged in operating a machine called a “ shaper,” consisting of a “ metal table, near the middle of which and about 3 feet apart are two heads, or spindles, about If inches in diameter, which project up 6 or 8 inches above the surface of the table. Upon each spindle are fastened two knives. The spindles revolve very rapidly, and the edge of the wood to be shaped is pressed against the knives by the…
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- Citrone v. O'Rourke Engineering Construction Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
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