Quinn v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J.), entered August 6, 1992, after a jury verdict rendered in favor of defendant and against plaintiff, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Since plaintiff failed to meet his burden of proving that "a violation of a safety regulation promulgated pursuant to Labor Law § 241 (6) was the proximate cause of the accident” (Ares v State of New York, 80 NY2d 959, 960), he was not entitled to a directed verdict. Further, as the jury could have reached its decision by a fair interpretation of the evidence, the court properly refused to set it…