Lynch v. Fred T. Ley & Co.

This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on May 31, 1921, at 290 Park avenue, borough of Manhattan, where the defendant, as general contractor, was erecting a building which covered the entire block on the west side of Park avenue, from Forty-seventh to Forty-eighth streets. The defendant was doing all the brick work on the building and at the time of the mishap to plaintiff, defendant’s bricklayers were putting bricks on the stone about the windows on the second floor.

The plaintiff was a carpenter’s helper, employed by the Marsten…