Court Opinion

ID: 5339066
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 05:47:57.625463+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:32.229062
License: Public Domain

Action to recover damages sustained by an infant who, while on a city sidewalk, was struck by a metal chip from a pipe being chiseled by an employee of a plumber doing work on the premises owned and being built by defendant partners. It is claimed that the operation of severing the pipe on the sidewalk was at the direction of one of the partners. Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Young, Carswell, Scudder and Johnston, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., dissents and votes for reversal and a new trial on the ground that there was no proof that at the time of the accident the employee of the subcontractor was working on the sidewalk at the instance of the owners, contractors. The facts do not justify the inference from the alleged direction given *800a day or two before the accident by one of the owners, contractors, that it was intended that such direction was a continuing direction.