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

Iva M. Hart, Respondent, v. William E. McKeever, Appellant.
    (Submitted October 19, 1917;
    decided November 2, 1917.)
    
      Hart v. Mc Keever, 166 App. Div. 968, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered January 23, 1915, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. This action was brought under the Employers’ Liability Act to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendant in failing to provide a safe, suitable and proper stove for her upon which to work; in ' failing to furnish a reasonably safe, suitable and proper place for her in which to work; and in failing to furnish proper means and appliances for doing her work. Plaintiff, while working as a cook for defendant, was burned through the tipping of a spider containing grease so that the grease caught fire. She contended that the accident was caused through defects in the stove furnished by the defendant for cooking.
    
      George B. Dolsen and William F. Rafferty for appellant.
    
      Myron S. Melvin for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound and Crane, JJ. Not sitting: Andrews, J.