Legal Opinion
Passante v. Agway Consumer Products, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 5, 2009PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pigott, J.
Samuel Passante, an employee of Agway Consumer Products, Inc., doing business as G & P Fresh Pac, was injured while using a mechanical dock leveler at the company’s warehouse in DeWitt. The dock leveler was manufactured by Rite-Hite Corporation and sold to G & P by Mullen Industrial Handling Corp. The dock leveler at issue here is a mechanical platform designed to provide a ramp between a loading dock and the bed of a truck or tractor trailer. When not in use, the dock leveler is flat and part of the loading dock floor. It rises to match the height of the load…
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- Gebo v. Black Clawson Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1998
- Passante v. Agway Consumer Products, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
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