Mazur v. Rock-McGraw, Inc.

• Decision Date: 12 January 1998
• Docket Number: ROCK-M
• Citation: 246 A.D.2d 515,666 N.Y.S.2d 939
• Parties: 1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 128 Krzystof MAZUR a/k/a Czeslaw Cybula, Plaintiff-Respondent, v.cGRAW, INC., Defendant Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent; Jarstan, Inc., Third-Party Defendant, Second Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent; Advatex Association, Inc., Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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666 N.Y.S.2d 939

1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 128

Krzystof MAZUR a/k/a Czeslaw Cybula, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ROCK-McGRAW, INC., Defendant Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent;

Jarstan, Inc., Third-Party Defendant, Second Third-Party

Plaintiff-Respondent;

Advatex Association, Inc., Second Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division,

Second Department.

Jan. 12, 1998.

Babchik & Mond, New York City (Norman R. Ferren, of counsel), for second third-party defendant-appellant Advatex Association, Inc.

Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek & Shoot, New York City (Brian J. Shoot and Harry Steinberg, of counsel), for plaintiff-respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the second third-party defendant Advatex Association, Inc., appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Garson, J.), dated November 13, 1996, as denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the second third-party complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Under the circumstances presented, neither the plaintiff's allegedly improper conduct in obtaining his employment nor his status as an illegal alien constitutes a bar to the maintenance of the instant suit for personal injuries based on asserted violations of Labor Law §§ 240, 241 (Avendano v. Sazerac, Inc., 221 A.D.2d 395, 634 N.Y.S.2d 390; Collins v. New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 201 A.D.2d 447, 607 N.Y.S.2d 387; Public Adm'r of Bronx County v. Equitable Life Assur. Socy. of U.S., 192 A.D.2d 325, 595 N.Y.S.2d 478; see also, Barker v. Kallash, 63 N.Y.2d 19, 24-26, 479 N.Y.S.2d 201, 468 N.E.2d 39; Margolin v. Friedman, 43 N.Y.2d 982, 983, 404 N.Y.S.2d 553, 375 N.E.2d 734; Torres v. Hallen Constr. Corp., 226 A.D.2d 364, 640 N.Y.S.2d 244; Mischalski v. Ford Motor Co., 935 F.Supp. 203, 205-207).

BRACKEN, J.P., and O'BRIEN, THOMPSON and ALTMAN, JJ., concur.