Legal Opinion
Losee v. Paramount Hotel Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 21, 1930PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtUntermyer, J.
On January 9, 1928, the plaintiff, an employee of the A. B. See Elevator Company, was at work on a ladder, engaged in assembling an elevator at the bottom of the elevator shaft at the Hotel Piccadilly. That hotel was owned by the defendant Paramount Hotel Corporation and was then under construction by a number of concerns, all of whom occupied towards the Paramount Hotel Corporation the relation of independent contractors. Suddenly a plank, falling into the shaft from an upper floor, struck the plaintiff, threw him from the ladder on which he was at work and caused the fracture of several…
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- Wolf v. . American Tract SocietyNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Moore v. Charles T. Wills, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1929
- Egan v. . Thompson-Starrett Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1913
- Anderson v. McNulty Bros.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
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- Horn v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969