GETTYS v. PORT AUTH. OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY


248 A.D.2d 226 (1998)

670 N.Y.S.2d 28

Herbert L. Gettys et al., Appellants, v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Respondent, et al., Defendant

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

March 17, 1998


In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, plaintiff Herbert Gettys was performing electrical repair work in basement level B-4 of Building 1, in April 1994, when he fell from an elevated platform and suffered injury. In his December 1995 deposition, the injured plaintiff described the makeshift scaffold, which had given way under him, as made of two pieces of plywood, approximately 10 feet long and 2 feet wide, placed side by side, not tied together...

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