FRUMMER v. HILTON HOTELS INT.


19 N.Y.2d 533 (1967)

Jack Frummer, Respondent, v. Hilton Hotels International, Inc., et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 18, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton B. Pfeffer and Max J. Gwertzman for appellants.

Irving A. Scheinberg for respondent.

Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Chief Judge FULD; Judge BREITEL dissents and votes to reverse in an opinion in which Judges VAN VOORHIS and KEATING concur.


Chief Judge FULD.

This appeal calls upon us to determine whether jurisdiction was validly acquired over one of the defendants, Hilton Hotels (U. K.) Ltd., a British corporation (hereafter referred to as Hilton [U. K.]).

The plaintiff alleges that in 1963 when he was on a visit to England he fell and was injured in his room at the London Hilton Hotel while attempting to take a shower in an "ovular", modernistic...

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