LAWRENCE v. CITY OF NY


82 A.D.2d 485 (1981)

Anthony Lawrence, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

August 24, 1981


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen G. Schwartz, Corporation Counsel (Trudi Mara Schleifer and Ronald E. Sternberg of counsel), for appellant.

Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, P. C. (Michael N. Block and Pamela Anagnos Liapakis of counsel), for respondent.

RABIN, MARGETT and WEINSTEIN, JJ., concur.


TITONE, J. P.

On February 2, 1971, plaintiff was employed as a fireman by the New York City Fire Department. While on a break in the backyard of premises where he and other fire fighters had been fighting a fire in the building thereon, plaintiff was struck by a couch pushed or thrown from the building. On or about February 8, 1972, plaintiff brought the within action against the appellant City of New York ...

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