The Superior Court of New York City July 2, 1886 (Matthes v. Kerrigan)

lead-opinion

By the Court.

Sedgwick, Ch. J.

The action was for damages to plaintiff, caused as alleged by defendant’s negligence in furnishing to plaintiff a scaffold, on 'which to work in trimming stone in the front of a building. The scaffold fell from the giving way of the cornice of the building over which the ropes that supported the scaffold ran.