BECKHUSEN v. E. P. LAWSON CO.


9 N.Y.2d 726 (1961)

Gerhard F. Beckhusen, Appellant, v. E. P. Lawson Company, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett E. Aron and Harry Zeitlan for appellant.

Paul A. Crouch, George S. Pickwick and George J. Conway for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur.


Per Curiam.

We are of the opinion that the jury had the right to find that defendant's design of the guillotine-type paper-cutting machine in such a manner as to permit the access doors to interfere with the safety mechanism, without at least warning the operator of the hazard foreseeable by it, was negligence, and that the negligent design of this dangerous instrumentality was the proximate cause of plaintiff's injury...

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