Legal Opinion
Porter v. Avlis Contracting Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 11, 1976Published
1Opinion of the CourtJoseph A. Suozzi, J.
In this wrongful death action, the jury returned a general verdict in favor of the plaintiff as against the defendant Avlis, the general contractor, in the amount of $300,000, and in favor of Modern Mason, the only other defendant sued by the plaintiff. The action arose out of the collapse on October 6, 1971, of a metal pre-engineered one-story factory building which was then under construction for Stokvis Multition Corp., the owner. The component parts of this building had been manufactured by Varco-Pruden, Inc., and the owner had contracted with Avlis Contracting Corp. as the general…
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