Legal Opinion
Derdiarian v. Felix Contracting Corp.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 20, 1980PublishedCited by 1,143 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
The operator of a motor vehicle, who failed timely to ingest a dosage of medication, suffered an epileptic seizure and his vehicle careened into an excavation site where a gas main was being installed beneath the street surface. The automobile crashed through a single wooden horse-type barricade put in place by the contractor and struck an employee of a subcontractor, who was propelled into the air. Upon landing the employee was splattered by boiling liquid enamel from a kettle also struck by the vehicl'e. Principally at issue on this appeal is whether…
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