Matter of Filitti v. Lerode Homes Corporation

The claimant, Antonio Filitti, was employed by the Lerode Homes Corporation in constructing a brick building at 43 to 47 Seventy-fourth street, Brooklyn. He was a general laborer, and on the tenth day of October, 1925, was digging a hole in which to put an iron beam. While bending over at his work, he was struck by a piece of cornice which fell from the adjoining building, an apartment house, No. 39 Seventy-fourth street. No work was being done by the contractors on this apartment house. The claimant was digging alongside the apartment house which was on the lot next to the place where he was…