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Torres v. Our Townhouse, LLC

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
Jan 24, 2012
91 A.D.3d 549 (N.Y. App. Div. 2012)

Opinion

2012-01-24

Indalecio Maldonado TORRES, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. OUR TOWNHOUSE, LLC, et al., Defendants–Respondents.

Shapiro Law Offices, PLLC, Bronx (Jason S. Shapiro of counsel), for appellant. Gallo Vitucci & Klar, LLP, New York (Chad E. Sjdquist of counsel), for respondents.


Shapiro Law Offices, PLLC, Bronx (Jason S. Shapiro of counsel), for appellant. Gallo Vitucci & Klar, LLP, New York (Chad E. Sjdquist of counsel), for respondents.

TOM, J.P., FRIEDMAN, DeGRASSE, RICHTER, MANZANET–DANIELS, JJ.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered March 29, 2011, which denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on his Labor Law § 240(1) cause of action, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted.

Plaintiff was injured when he fell to the ground while descending from a 12–foot–high sidewalk bridge without the use of a ladder or scaffold or any other safety device. Defendants contend that he was provided with a ladder and that his own decision to climb down a nearby tree instead of using the ladder was the sole proximate cause of his injuries. However, the record fails to support this contention. Even if defendants' evidence suggested that there might have been a ladder in the chassis under the truck at the work site, no evidence was presented that plaintiff knew where the ladder was or that he knew he was expected to use it and for no good reason chose not to do so ( see Gallagher v. New York Post, 14 N.Y.3d 83, 88, 896 N.Y.S.2d 732, 923 N.E.2d 1120 [2010]; Auriemma v. Biltmore Theatre, LLC, 82 A.D.3d 1, 11, 917 N.Y.S.2d 130 [2011] ).


Summaries of

Torres v. Our Townhouse, LLC

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
Jan 24, 2012
91 A.D.3d 549 (N.Y. App. Div. 2012)
Case details for

Torres v. Our Townhouse, LLC

Case Details

Full title:Indalecio Maldonado TORRES, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. OUR TOWNHOUSE, LLC, et…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

Date published: Jan 24, 2012

Citations

91 A.D.3d 549 (N.Y. App. Div. 2012)
91 A.D.3d 549
2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 418

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