COTTER v. SPEAR


139 A.D.2d 555 (1988)

Jack Cotter, Appellant, et al., Plaintiff, v. Wayne Spear, Respondent

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

April 11, 1988


Ordered that the judgment is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and the facts and as a matter of discretion, and a new trial is granted to the appellant, with costs to abide the event.

On September 12, 1982, the defendant's three-story apartment building in Yonkers, New York, was destroyed by fire. The appellant, a firefighter who had been fighting the fire, alleged that he received injuries when a plastic hanging flowerpot which had been hanging from a...

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