Legal Opinion
Fitzgerald v. 667 Hotel Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided January 17, 1980PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Edward J. Greenfield, J.
In the late afternoon on August 3, 1973, a portion of a building known as the Broadway Central Hotel at 673 Broadway in Manhattan collapsed. Four persons were killed in the wreckage, many others were hurt and a number of businesses sustained substantial property damage giving rise to the 43 consolidated actions at bar. Named as defendants were, among others, the owners of the building, the net lessee, the mortgagee, a tenant who was having structural renovation done on its portion of the premises and the contractor it employed for that purpose. Also…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- H. R. Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Rogers v. Dorchester AssociatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
- Schuster v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1958
- Riss v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
- Bernardine v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1945
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3Cited by2 opinions
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