VAN EKEN v. CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK


294 A.D.2d 352 (2002)

742 N.Y.S.2d 94

JOSEPH VAN EKEN et al., Appellants, v. CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. ROADWAY CONTRACTING INCORPORATED, Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

Decided May 6, 2002.


Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, the plaintiffs' motion is granted, and the motion of the third-party defendant is denied.

The plaintiff Joseph Van Eken (hereinafter Van Eken), an employee of the third-party defendant, Roadway Contracting Incorporated (hereinafter RCI), was working in an excavation trench that was approximately 16 to 18 feet deep, as part of a steam main project for the defendant third-party plaintiff...

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