Mack v. Altmans Stage Lighting Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J. P.
In this action to recover damages for personal injuries, plaintiff Charles Mack appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, which dismissed the complaint upon defendant’s motion at the end of the plaintiffs’ case.1
*469The issue is whether plaintiff failed to establish proximate causation between the accident in which he sustained his injury and the defendant’s violation of the statutory duties imposed by subdivision 1 of section 240 of the Labor Law. We agree with Trial Term that proximate causation is lacking as a matter of law and affirm.
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