Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 8, 1907 (Haggblad v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad)

Gaynor, J.:

Section 18 of the Labor Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 415) provides that the employers of persons to labor “ shall not furnish or erCct, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor,' scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper