Case Name: ARNOLD v. NATIONAL STARCH CO.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-07-09
Citations: 105 N.Y.S. 420
Docket Number: 
Parties: ARNOLD v. NATIONAL STARCH CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 105
Pages: 420–424

Head Matter:
(121 App. Div. 889)
ARNOLD v. NATIONAL STARCH CO.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
July 9, 1907.)
Master and Servant—Injury to Servant—Negligence.
In an action for injuries to an employe received in a fire in the employer’s factory, evidence examined, and held insufficient to show negligence.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 34, Master and Servant, §§ 954-977.]
ICruse and Spring, JJ., dissenting.
Appeal from Trial Term, Oswego County.
Action by Anna Arnold, an infant, .by Stephen Giersch, her guardian ad litem, against the National Starch Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial on the minutes, defendant appeals.
Judgment and order reversed, and new trial ordered.
The action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. A fire occurred in the defendant’s factory, burning the plaintiff’s face, and other parts of her body, which the plaintiff claims occurred through the negligence of the defendant.
Argued before McRENNAN, P. J., and SPRING, WIRRIAMS, KRUSE, and ROBSON, JJ.
Elisha B. Powell, for appellant.
Udelle Bartlett, for respondent.

Opinion:
PÉR CÜRIAM.
Judgment and order reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide event. Held, that there is no evidence tending to show that the injuries of which the plaintiff complains were caused by any negligence on the part of the defendant-.