VAN IDERSTINE COMPANY v. RGJ CONTRACTING CO., INC.

No. 548, Docket 72-2225.

480 F.2d 454 (1973)

VAN IDERSTINE COMPANY, a division of Darling Delaware Co., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RGJ CONTRACTING CO., INC., and Michael Petrow, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Siff, Thomas R. Newman, New York City (Greenhill & Speyer, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Morris Zweibel, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Grant & Helfenstein, Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for appellee RGJ Contracting Co., Inc.

Arthur N. Seiff, New York City (Katz & Gantman, New York City, on the brief), for appellee Michael Petrow.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and KILKENNY and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

On December 29, 1964, a fire gutted a five-story building owned by appellant, Van Iderstine Company, in Long Island City, New York. The structure was part of a complex of twenty-eight buildings used in Van Iderstine's business of rendering butchers' offal and manufacturing bone meal, poultry feed and bone glue. Van Iderstine subsequently brought this action against R. G. J. Contracting Company, a contractor hired by Van Iderstine to...

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