· 2/16/1940
Woodside National Bank v. L. M. Building Corp.
Citations
- 258 A.D. 1047
- 18 N.Y.S.2d 1002
- 1940 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8809
How courts have described this case
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- holding that owner and general contractor were not liable for a subcontractor’s failure to test air and properly ventilate underground water reservoir after subcontractor’s employee asphyxiated on noxious gasses
- “[TJhe duty to provide a safe place to work is not breached when the injury arises out of a defect in the subcontractor’s oim ... methods, or through negligent acts of the subcontractor occurring as a detail of the work. ”
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