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CIRALE v. 80 PINE ST. CORP.

35 N.Y.2d 113 (1974)

Don Cirale, as Administrator of The Estate of Lee Cirale, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. 80 Pine Street Corporation et al., Respondents, and Board of Inquiry of the Department of Buildings of the City of New York, Appellant, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 15, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Redlich, Corporation Counsel (Susan S. Belkin and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for appellant.

Lawrence Goldhirsch, Harry H. Lipsig and Alan J. Taliuaga for respondents.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JONES, WACHTLER and RABIN concur with Judge JASEN; Judge GABRIELLI dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judge STEVENS concurs.

JASEN, J.

This appeal arises out of a tragic steam pipe explosion at 80 Pine Street in New York City on May 3, 1972, which resulted in the death of seven persons, one of which was plaintiff's intestate. Immediately after the accident, a Board of Inquiry was convened at the direction of the Commissioner of Buildings "to inquire into and ascertain the facts, study the cause or causes of the accident for the purpose...

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