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· 6/26/1989

Richard Gallose v. Long Island Railroad Company

Citations

  • 878 F.2d 80
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 9554

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that jury must decide whether coworker routinely brought dog to work in course of employment, and whether railroad's duty included duty to warn of heightened risk of dog bite
  • “The catalyst which ignites [the duty to provide a safe workplace] is knowledge, either actual or constructive.”
  • because railroad could have discovered presence of large dog on premises, injuries caused by dog bite were foreseeable
  • “The catalyst which ignites [the duty to provide a safe workplace] is knowledge, either actual or constructive.”

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Judges: Lumbard, Pratt, Altimari

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