The Superior Court of New York City June 2, 1883 (Oyshterbank v. Gardner)

By the Court.—Sedgwick, Ch. J.

—The burden of proof was upon the plaintiff to show negligence on the part of defendants. They had the legal right to make and maintain the hatchway in their own building. The hatchway was of an ordinary and well known kind of appliance to the management of business.