Pantekas v. Westyard Corp.

Judgment of dismissal, Supreme Court, New York County, entered December 15, 1972, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the ease remanded for trial anew, with $60 costs and disbursements to abide the event. Upon jury trial, the court dismissed at the close of plaintiff-appellant’s ease. Defendant-respondent Dawson Arthur Corp., owner of an apartment building, virtually empty of tenants and permitted to fall into disrepair, claims to be without responsibility for its condition, cause of plaintiff’s accident, because, having turned the building over to defendant-respondent Allied Maintenance…