SHORR v. COHEN BROS. REALTY & CONSTR. CORP.


67 N.Y.2d 675 (1986)

Harold Shorr, Appellant, v. Cohen Bros. Realty & Construction Corp. et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Newman, Louis G. Adolfsen and Audrey Rogers for appellant.

Joseph D. Ahearn and Michael Majewski for respondents.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur; Judge HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff was severely injured on June 15, 1973 when he jumped out of a window of his sixth story apartment to escape a fire which he had caused by placing a recently used gasoline tank, with the top removed, near the pilot light on a stove. When the pilot light's flame ignited a residue which had apparently remained in the tank, plaintiff...

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