LAWYER v. HOFFMAN


275 A.D.2d 541 (2000)

711 N.Y.S.2d 618

WAYNE E. LAWYER, Appellant, v. CHARLES HOFFMAN, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. FLORIDA GULF CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

Decided August 3, 2000.


Lahtinen, J.

Plaintiff was a construction laborer employed by third-party defendant engaged in installing a sewer line on property owned by defendant. Plaintiff was allegedly injured after he had retrieved a heavy manhole cover chain from a utility truck several hundred feet away from the work site and was carrying it along a temporary gravel roadbed when he slipped and fell on several inches of packed snow and ice. Plaintiff thereafter commenced this action against...

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