Birchall v. Clemons Realty Co.

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the death of her intestate, a window cleaner, who fell from the sixteenth floor of a building located at 345-353 Seventh avenue, New York city. She sued the defendant, appellant, Clemons Realty Company, Inc., as the owner of the building; the defendant G. Richard Davis & Co., Inc., as the general contractor who erected the building; the defendant, respondent, S. H. Pomeroy Co., Inc., a contractor that installed the window frames, hooks, bolts and screws, and the defendant Harvey Hubbell, Inc., the firm which supplied the screws for the window frames.…