Case Name: Angelo De Crescenzo, Respondent, v. 274-276 Madison Avenue, Inc., Defendant, and Thompson-Starrett Company, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1931-05-12
Citations: 256 N.Y. 630
Docket Number: 
Parties: Angelo De Crescenzo, Respondent, v. 274-276 Madison Avenue, Inc., Defendant, and Thompson-Starrett Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 256
Pages: 630–631

Head Matter:
Angelo De Crescenzo, Respondent, v. 274-276 Madison Avenue, Inc., Defendant, and Thompson-Starrett Company, Appellant.
(Argued April 14, 1931;
decided May 12, 1931.
Frederick Hulse for appellant.
Leonard F. Fish and T. J. Gillen for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment of the Appellate Division and that of the Trial Term reversed and complaint dismissed, with costs in all courts, on the ground that Labor Law, section 2.41, subdivision 5, as it read at the time of the accident, did not apply to hoisting apparatus not " within a building " and that no liability at common law was established; no opinion.
Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Lehman, Kellogg, O'Brien and Hubbs, JJ.