APONTE v. COSMOPOLITAN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY


226 A.D.2d 299 (1996)

642 N.Y.S.2d 862

Jacinto Aponte, Respondent, v. Cosmopolitan Employment Agency, Doing Business as Cosmopolitan Building Maintenance, Respondent Jacinto Aponte et al., Respondents, v. City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Respondent, and American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Appellant, et al., Defendant

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

April 30, 1996


On July 19, 1985, the ASPCA raided a cockfight being held in the basement of a New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) building on Troutman Street in Brooklyn. A riot ensued outside the building and several rioters confronted the police. Plaintiff, the superintendent of the building, who worked for defendant Cosmopolitan, which had a contract with HPD, has consistently maintained that he was not present...

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