Legal Opinion
Shepherd v. Whitestar Development Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 3, 2014Published
1Opinion of the Court
*1079Memorandum: Plaintiffs brother (decedent) was employed by defendant Whitestar Development Corp. (Whitestar) as a custodian at the One Niagara building in Niagara Falls. Defendant One Niagara, LLC owned the property, Whitestar managed the property, and defendants Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC and Allied Waste Services of Buffalo (collectively, Allied defendants) maintained a trash compactor/dumpster on the property. Decedent was last seen at work on July 4, 2010, and it was ultimately determined that he had been crushed to death after falling into the trash compactor provided by…
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