Derdiarian v. Felix Contracting Corp.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1980-11-20

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OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge Cooke. The operator of a motor vehicle, who failed timely to ingest a dosage of medication, suffered an epileptic seizure and his vehicle careened into an excavation site where a gas main was being installed beneath the street surface. The automobile crashed through a single wooden horse-type barricade put in place by the contractor and struck an employee of a subcontractor,…

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