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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Long Island Railroad Company, Respondent, v. American Bridge Company of New York et al., Appellants.
    
      Long Island R. R. Co. v. American Bridge Co., 175 App. Div. 170, affirmed.
    (Argued January 16, 1919;
    decided February 4, 1919.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered November 29, 1916, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict directed by the court in an action to recover upon a contract of indemnity. Defendant had contracted with plaintiff to erect a certain bridge and save plaintiff harmless from liability for injuries to persons or property due to its carrying out the work. An employee of a subcontractor while in the performance of his duty was struck by one of plaintiff’s trains and received injuries for which he recovered a verdict against said plaintiff who in turn sues the defendant to recover the amount thereof.
    
      William W. Corlett, George Denneny and Charles MacVeagh for appellants.
    
      William C. Beecher and Joseph F. Keany for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Collin, Cuddeback, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Not voting: Cardozo, J.