PAINTON v. COSCO WHOLESALE, INC.


267 A.D.2d 288 (1999)

700 N.Y.S.2d 197

EUGENE PAINTON et al., Appellants, v. COSCO WHOLESALE, INC., Respondent, et al., Defendant.

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

Decided December 13, 1999.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The plaintiff Eugene Painton fell to the ground when a wooden staircase leading from a trailer collapsed when he stepped on it in the act of exiting from the trailer. The trailer was parked on a construction site at which the plaintiff was working as an operating engineer. He was injured and commenced this action against, among others, the defendant...

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