New York Court of Common Pleas April 7, 1879 (Koster v. Noonan)

Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice.

The question put to Ditmarr was a proper one. It specified what is required in a blast by the corporation ordinance, and then asked if, in a blast exploded in the excavation of a sewer, whether portions of rock could have been thrown 280 feet from the point of discharge, which was the distance at which the deceased was from it when he was struck by a piece of rock