Case Name: Robert Miele, Respondent, v. Salem Rosenblatt et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1917-06-12
Citations: 221 N.Y. 567
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert Miele, Respondent, v. Salem Rosenblatt et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 221
Pages: 567–568

Head Matter:
Robert Miele, Respondent, v. Salem Rosenblatt et al., Appellants.
Miele v. Rosenblatt, 164 App. Div. 604, affirmed.
(Argued May 23, 1917;
decided June 12, 1917.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 4, 1914, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of the defendants, his employers. The plaintiff was injured while sharpening a small steel drill. The sharpening was done by repeatedly heating and hammering the cutting end of the drill. When sufficiently heated the drill was hammered out on a small slab of steel resting on the end of a bench or table supporting a lathe operated by artificial power and vibrating from the effect thereof. To enable him to hold and manipulate the drill plaintiff was furnished with a pair of ordinary gas pliers alleged to have been more or less defective from use. While plaintiff was beating the dz*ill it escaped from the pliers, and flying into his right eye destroyed the sight.
E. Clyde Sherwood and Amos H. Stephens for appellants.
Bernard Cordon for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Chase, Collin, Cuddeback, Oardozo, Crane and Andrews, JJ. Not sitting: McLaughlin, J.