...of their health. [As amended Ъу L. 1900, eh. 5,5.1] § 18. Scaffolding for use of employees. — A person employing or directing another to perform...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged. Scaffolding or staging swung or suspended from an overhead support, more than twenty feet from the...

...plank tip up; he was stooping down." Section 18 of the Labor Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 415), provides: "A person employing or directing another to perform...to give proper protection to the life and limb of the person so employed or engaged." Misc.] City Court of Xew York, June, 1901. The law thus declares...

...of 1897, chap. 415 ; re-enacted in Consol. Laws, chap. 31 ; Laws of 1909, chap. 36) provides that " A person employing or directing another to perform...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged." It was held in Stewart v. Ferguson (164 NY 553) that this section " is a positive prohibition laid upon...

...on that floor." Section 18 of the Labor Law, now chapter 31 of the Consolidated Laws, provides : " A person employing or directing another to perform...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged." Although that statute has been in effect for many years, I am not aware that the words "so * * * operated...

...within the meaning of section 18 of the Labor Law (Laws of 1897, chap. 415), which provides: " A persou employing or directing another to perform labor of...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged; " That if the plaintiff used the cross piece with knowledge of the defect therein, or by the exercise...

...to perform labor of any kind in the erection, repairing, App. Div.] Second Dupartment, April, 1908. altering or painting of a house, building or structure...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged. * * *" The respondent contends that the word "structure" must be given an ejusdem generis interpretation,...

...erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists * * * or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe,...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged," imposes upon the master an absolute duty which he may not delegate to another and which continues during...

...performance of work such as the plaintiff was doing, which is unsafe, unsuitable or improper and which is not so constructed, placed and operated as to give...the life and limb of a person so employed or engaged ; and as a precaution further requires the scaffold to bear four times the maximum weight required...

...[Vol. 149. cal contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so coiistruced, placed and operated as to give proper protection to...life and limb of a person so employed or engaged." (Labor Law, § 18.) The duty is placed upon the one who is called upon to furnish the scaffolding,...

...of 1897, chap. 415, § 18) requiring the use of safe, suitable and proper mechanical contrivances, " so constructed, placed and operated as' to give proper protection to the life and limb of a person '' employed or engaged in performing labor in the repairing or altering of a "structure." That statute...