New York Court of Appeals, 1945

Orenstein v. Bankers Trust Company

Orenstein v. Bankers Trust Company
New York Court of Appeals · Decided February 21, 1945
60 N.E.2d 759; 294 N.Y. 673; 1945 N.Y. LEXIS 870 (North Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Orenstein v. Bankers Trust Company

Opinion of the Court

Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Lewis, Thacher and Dye, JJ. Conway and Desmond, JJ., dissent on the ground that under the terms of this lease requiring, as it did, that the landlord “ make all exterior repairs ”, the landlord should be held to have been “ in charge of ” the exterior of the building and to have failed to comply with section 202 of the Labor Law.

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