Legal Opinion
Griffith v. Southbridge Towers, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 10, 1998PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered August 5, 1997, which dismissed the complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, to reinstate the complaint as against defendants Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc., VNR Construction Corporation (VNR), the City of New York (City), and Manhattan Gunite (Gunite), and remand the matter for further proceedings, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
According to the complaint and trial evidence, plaintiff Mervyn Griffith was injured while attempting to extract a hand truck from a depression in the pavement. The depression…
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