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SILVERSTEIN v. MINKIN

49 N.Y.2d 260 (1980)

Jack Silverstein, Respondent, v. Irving E. Minkin, Individually and as Acting Commissioner of the Department of Buildings of the City of New York, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen G. Schwartz, Corporation Counsel (Peter Lavigne and Carolyn E. Demarest of counsel), for appellants.

Jack Silverstein, respondent pro se.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur in Per Curiam opinion.

Per Curiam.

Following an accident in which one of his employees was killed in a fall from a scaffold, the petitioner, a licensed rigger, accompanied by his attorney, attended and voluntarily testified before an official board of inquiry convened to investigate the cause of the accident. At a subsequent adjourned session of the inquiry the petitioner again appeared, this time under subpoena. On that occasion he refused...

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