PENN v. BOLLES


12 A.D.3d 255 (2004)

784 N.Y.S.2d 550

SAMANTHA PENN, Respondent, v. JAROS, BAUM & BOLLES et al., Defendants, and NEW WATER STREET CORPORATION, Appellant. (And a Third-Party Action.) NEW WATER STREET CORPORATION, Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, Second Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

November 18, 2004.


Plaintiff's decedent, an employee of Depository, was locked in a vault leased to Depository by New Water. In an apparent attempt to alert others to her presence in the vault and secure her release, she activated a fire suppression system that caused carbon dioxide to fill the vault, suffocating her. Summary judgment dismissing the complaint against New Water was properly denied since the record discloses triable issues as to whether New Water, although an out-of-possession...

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