Opinion
July 1, 1963
In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injury, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered May 29, 1961 after trial, upon a jury's verdict in favor of the defendants. Judgment affirmed, with costs. By stipulation of the parties set forth in the record, the appeal has been limited to the question of whether it was reversible error for the trial court to refuse to grant two requests to charge with respect to the violation of rule 2.16.13 of the Rules of the Board of Standards and Appeals of the City of New York. Neither rule 2.16.13 nor any other specific rule of the said board was asserted in plaintiff's complaint or in his bill of particulars; nor was any such rule invoked at any time during the trial until the requests to charge were made. Nor was any specific provision of statute asserted until, on the argument of a motion to dismiss, reliance was placed on section 200 Lab. of the Labor Law. The record discloses that reference to said section was included in the charge to the jury, with appropriate explanation. Ughetta, Acting P.J., Kleinfeld, Christ, Brennan and Rabin, JJ., concur.