Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
Plaintiff, an employee of the subcontractor, testified that while installing air-conditioning ducts on the ceiling of defendant's bank at Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn, on Saturday, May 25, 1957, the ladder which he had brought from his employer's shop became unsteady. He asked the only bank employee present, one Frank Fornino, who was employed by defendant as a "receptionist...
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