KOZMAN v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES

No. 330, Docket 23982.

236 F.2d 527 (1956)

Steve KOZMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Allied Maintenance Corporation, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, and Allied Cleaning Contractors, Inc., Fourth-Party Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Sansone and Max J. Miller, New York City, for Steve Kozman, plaintiff-appellant.

John G. Reilly, New York City (Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, Robert F. Ewald, and Harold V. McCoy, New York City, on the brief), for Trans World Airlines, Inc., defendant-appellant.

Keith Brown, New York City (Mendes & Mount and Kenneth R. Thompson, New York City, on the brief), for Allied Maintenance Corporation, third-party defendant-appellant.

Raymond C. Green, New York City (Bernard Katzen, Harry Schechter, and William H. Stieglitz, New York City, on the brief), for Allied Cleaning Contractors, Inc., fourth-party defendant-appellant.

Sidney Goldstein, New York City (Daniel B. Goldberg, Joseph Lesser, and Patrick J. Falvey, New York City, on the brief), for The Port of New York Authority as amicus curiae.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and FRANK and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Chief Judge.

These are appeals by all four parties to an action by plaintiff Kozman for damages for personal injuries resulting from his fall from a ladder while engaged in cleaning the windows of a door of a TWA hangar located at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Originally Kozman, a window cleaner employed by Allied Cleaning Contractors, Inc., commenced an action in the Supreme Court of New York against TWA, which maintained, managed, operated, and controlled...

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