Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Samuel Wiesenthal, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1928-05-08
Citations: 248 N.Y. 200
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Samuel Wiesenthal, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 200–201

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Samuel Wiesenthal, Appellant.
(Argued March 28, 1928;
decided May 8, 1928.)
Bernard Gordon and Harry A. Lieb for appellant.
George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (J. Joseph Lilly and Vine H. Smith of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
There was no violation of section 272 of the Labor Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 31) by defendant. His factory was maintained with every exit required by the statute. Violation by the landlord and by the tenant of the adjoining factory in reducing the number of exits of that factory by barring and otherwise obstructing the door between the two factories does not constitute an infraction of the law as to the factory occupied by defendant. Their illegal acts in relation to that factory cannot be attributed to defendant.
The judgment of the Appellate Division and that of the trial court should be reversed and the defendant discharged.
Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O'Brien, JJ., concur.
Judgments reversed, etc.