Sweeting v. Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Early in the afternoon of July 17, 1975 plaintiff’s intestate, Grover C. Sweeting, and a co-worker employed by defendant Truax & Hovey Drywall Corporation with the aid of their foreman, erected a scaffold on a mezzanine above the main floor of a B.O.C.E.S. building located on Thompson Road in Syracuse. They then proceeded to mount sheetrock onto metal studs on the rear wall of the mezzanine using a screwgun. A little while later, as the intestate descended from the scaffold to take a coffee break, he stepped on a double strand of wire which was affixed to the top of the…
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