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

Olive K. Burrows, as Administratrix of the Estate of Marvin A. Burrows, Deceased, Respondent, v. Livingston-Niagara Power Company, Appellant.
    
      Negligence — electricity — death of workman through iron bar he was lowering from window of factory building coming in contact with uninsulated electric wire.
    
    
      Burrows v. Livingston-Niagara Power Co., 217 App. Div. 206» affirmed.
    (Argued December 2, 1926;
    decided December 31, 1926.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered July 13, 1926, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant. Intestate was killed while cleaning out a room in a factory where he was employed, through the coming in contact of an iron rod, which he was pushing out of a window, with an uninsulated high tension electric wire erected and maintained by defendant within from four to eight feet of the building.
    
      Paul Folger and Calin McLennan for appellant.
    
      Arthur VD. Chamberlain for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.