Legal Opinion
Merkle v. Weibrecht
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 5, 1996PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Yesawich Jr., J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Ryan, Jr., J.), entered July 28, 1995 in Franklin County, which, inter alia, granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
The events giving rise to this action occurred in July 1988, when plaintiff Dennis Merkle (hereinafter plaintiff), who at the time was an employee of third-party defendant, Scheefer Plumbing and Heating (hereinafter Scheefer), was struck on the head by a heavy steel access door while emerging from an underground sewer lift station located on the premises of the Mirror Lake Inn in the…
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