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Hedwig Hacker, as Administratrix of the Estate of Julius Hacker, Deceased, Respondent, v. O'Rourke Engineering Construction Company, Appellant, 1907 — 188 N.Y. 563 · caselaw · US
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Hedwig Hacker, as Administratrix of the Estate of Julius Hacker, Deceased, Respondent, v. O'Rourke Engineering Construction Company, Appellant
188 N.Y. 563·New York Court of Appeals·1907·NY
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Opinion
Hedwig Hacker, as Administratrix of the Estate of Julius Hacker, Deceased, Respondent, v. O’Rourke Engineering Construction Company, Appellant.
(Argued March 4, 1907;
decided April 2, 1907.)
Hacker r. O’Rourke Eng. & Constr. Co., 115 App. Div. 893, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment qf the Ajipellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 8, 1906, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and affirming an order denying a motion -for a new trial in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been caused by defendant’s negligence.
Theodore 1:1. Lord for appellant.
Charles Steclcler and Levin L. Brown for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs ; no opinion.
Concur; Cullen, Ch. J., G-ray, Edward T. Bartlett, Haight, Willard Bartlett, Hiscock and Chase, JJ.