Legal Opinion
Torres v. Monroe College
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 18, 2004PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered December 10, 2003, which denied plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability pursuant to Labor Law § 240 (1), unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion granted and the matter remanded for further proceedings.
Plaintiff, while employed as a laborer for S. Leggierio Construction, was assigned the task of applying sheetrock to a section of a newly constructed wall in defendant College’s Learning Center. To do so, he climbed on top of a scaffold without guard rails, which had been set up by…
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