Fallone v. Misericordia Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtValente, J.
Defendant Industrial Engineering Co. (Industrial) appeals from a judgment in plaintiff’s favor entered upon a verdict of a jury. The question presented on this appeal is whether workmen’s compensation was plaintiff’s exclusive remedy which precluded recovery in this action.
Plaintiff was injured on May 2, 1957 when in the course of the construction of certain hospital buildings in Bronx County, a scaffold, on which plaintiff was working, collapsed.
On May 22, 1956 Vermilya-Brown Construction Co. (Vermilya) entered into a contract with the owners to construct the *224hospital. On May 24, 1956,…
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