COLE v. LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO.


24 Misc.2d 221 (1959)

William J. Cole, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Long Island Lighting Company et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Trial Term, Kings County.

December 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McAloon & Hirschberg for Thomas Petrone, plaintiff.

Pino & Pizzitola for William J. Cole, Jr., and others, plaintiffs.

Thomas F. Keane for Caye Construction Co., defendant.

George S. Pickwick for Wielandt Construction Co., defendant.


BENJAMIN BRENNER, J.

A power plant was being built where the four plaintiffs fell from a scaffold while lifting a massive stone in behalf of a stonemason subcontractor. The defendant Caye Construction Company was a prime contractor which undertook to furnish the scaffold for the use of the masons. The defendant Wielandt Construction Company was the brick subcontractor which built it. The scaffold collapsed because...

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