Legal Opinion
Baez v. Barnard College
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 7, 2008PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lucy Billings, J.
I. Introduction
The trial of this action and defendant’s pending motion have *313required the court to determine whether appellate decisions, that a trap door is not in itself a structural defect, and the absence of any statutory or regulatory provision governing trap doors, insulate a building owner from liability for injury to a tenant’s employee who fell through the building’s trap door. This controlling authority, to the extent discernible, concerns trap doors constructed by a tenant, without the owner’s knowledge. Here, the evidence showed that the owner…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Mauriello v. Port AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
- Uhlich v. Canada Dry Bottling Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Baez v. CollegeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010