Parsons v. Borden, Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Dowd, J.), entered July 7, 1999 in Chenango County, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs motion to amend the complaint by increasing the ad damnum clause.

In May 1989, plaintiff was employed as a laborer for third-party defendant, a construction company retained by defendant to demolish and remove a large storage tank from a building located in the Village of Bainbridge, Chenango County. While attempting to access the top of the building without a scaffold or ladder, plaintiff climbed onto the handrail of a catwalk and then to the top of the tank…