Case Name: Cornelius Driscoll, Respondent, v. Cadillac Hotel Company, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1915-11-16
Citations: 216 N.Y. 686
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cornelius Driscoll, Respondent, v. Cadillac Hotel Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 216
Pages: 686–686

Head Matter:
Cornelius Driscoll, Respondent, v. Cadillac Hotel Company, Appellant.
Driscoll v. Cadillac Hotel Co., 158 App. Div. 933, affirmed.
(Argued October 19, 1915;
decided November 16, 1915.)
Appeal from a judgment, entered November 5, 1913, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, overruling defendant’s exceptions, ordered to be heard in the first instance by the Appellate Division, denying a motion for a new trial and directing judgment for plaintiff upon the verdiqt in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff, through the negligence .of the defendant, his employer. Plaintiff was injured by falling from a ledge on which he was standing engaged in cleaning windows of the defendant’s hotel. His theory of the case is that the defendant was negligent in two particulars: 1. Negligence of the head houseman, Madden, intrusted with authority to direct, control and command, in ordering the plaintiff to clean the windows from the outside while standing unprotected on a narrow five-inch ledge. 2. Negligence of the defendant in failing to supply the plaintiff with any life belt or safety belt or guard or other device, contrivance or appliance, to prevent him from falling or slipping while doing his work as window cleaner, as appears by the bill of particulars and the notice of time, place and cause of the injury.
George M. Pinney and Frederick W. Catlin for appellant.
Herbert C. Smyth, Joseph A. Burdeau, Roderic Well-man and Joseph W. Clausen for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Willard Bartlett, Ch. J., Hisoock, Collin, Hogan, Cardozo, Seabury and Pound, JJ.