ROBINSON v. SHAPIRO

No. 15, Docket 80-7158.

646 F.2d 734 (1981)

Rita ROBINSON, individually and as Administratrix of the goods, chattels and credits that were of Joseph Robinson, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rubin SHAPIRO, Harold Schneider, Irving Newman, Samuel Greenberg and Julius G. Fishman, doing business as Village Towers Company (a partnership), Defendants-Appellants. Harold SCHNEIDER, doing business as Village Towers Company (a partnership), Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WASOFF CONTRACTORS, INC. and Modern Sheet Metal, Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall C. Berger, New York City (Thomas Gelb, Weisman, Celler, Spett, Modlin & Wertheimer, Lewis I. Wolf, Benjamin Metviner, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants and third-party plaintiff-appellant.

Martin S. Rothman, New York City (Perry Pazer, David Epstein, Pazer & Epstein, P. C., Seligson, Rothman & Rothman, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

William F. Larkin, New York City (Mona C. Engel, F. V. Mina, New York City, of counsel), for third-party defendant-appellee Wasoff Contractors, Inc.

Douglas E. McKeon, New York City (Kathryn Deborah Nealon, Law Offices of William F. O'Connor, Peter M. Pryor, New York City, of counsel), for third-party defendant-appellee Modern Sheet Metal, Inc.

Before OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and CARTER, District Judge.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity action, Village Towers Company (Village Towers), a partnership owning an apartment building in New York City, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 484 F.Supp. 91, Lasker, J., entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff Rita Robinson $1,180,000 for the wrongful death and conscious pain and suffering of her late husband, Joseph...

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