Legal Opinion
Rivera v. Our Lady of Knox Roman Catholic Church
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 21, 1993PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Weiss, P. J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered March 20, 1992 in Greene County, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
*765On February 9, 1989, plaintiff Orlando Rivera, Jr. sustained personal injuries when he fell approximately six feet from a scaffold to the ground. He was an inmate at Greene Correctional Facility in Greene County assigned to a work detail at defendant Our Lady of Knox Roman Catholic Church and has no recollection of any of the events surrounding the accident. The fall was observed by a clergyman, Father…
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