Legal Opinion
Gasper v. Ford Motor Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 10, 1963PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtScileppi, J.
Plaintiff’s intestate, Donald Gasper, was employed as a master window cleaner by Frederick Seifert (doing business as Main Window Cleaning Company). Seifert’s company was engaged by defendant Ford to wash the windows of its stamping plant at Hamburg, New York. On June 2, 1953 Gasper, in the course of his employment of cleaning a window on an enclosed bridge or elevated walkway at defendant’s plant, had placed a plank across the glass face of a horizontally opened ventilating window. The window collapsed under the decedent’s weight, and he fell to the ground some 34 feet below, sustaining…
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- McLean v. . Studebaker Brothers Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1917
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