Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York April 24, 1908 (Bower v. Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Corp.)

Miller, J.:

The plaintiff’s intestate while in the employ of the defendant fell from a scaffold and within two hours thereafter died, as the plaintiff asserts, from injuries thus received. She relies on section 18 of the Labor Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 415) to establish liability.

The defendant had a contract to paint the ironwork in the New York city subway.