Condomanolis v. Boiler Repair Maintenance Co.

This personal injury negligence action was dismissed at the close of plaintiff s case. The third-party cross complaints were dismissed as academic. Plaintiff was employed as a handyman or, as sometimes euphemistically described in the record, as a “ maintenance engineer ’ ’ by the Plymouth Hotel. There were two heating units in the hotel basement, each consisting of a boiler and an oil burner and identified as units one and two at the trial. The units were not used together simultaneously. We are concerned only with unit two. It was plaintiff’s proof that the hotel management had, in early…