Court Opinion

ID: 5784361
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:56:13.175516+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:03.879539
License: Public Domain

In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, defendant Maekay Construction Corp. appeals from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered February 16, 1972, against it and in favor of plaintiff, upon a jury verdict on the issue of liability only, after a trial upon that issue alone. The judgment also recites that the cause against defendant Edenwald Construction Co. and the causes against third- and fourth-party defendant Belt Contracting Co. were dismissed. Judgment reversed, on the law and in the interests of justice, and new trial granted as to all parties and causes, with costs to abide the event. In our opinion, this case was improperly submitted to the jury on the theory of res ipsa loquitur as against defendant Maekay Construction Corp. There should be a new trial as to all the parties and all the causes, in the interests of justice. Munder, Acting P. J., Latham, Gulotta, Brennan and Benjamin, JJ., concur.