Joseph F. Meny, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Carl S. Carlson, Grace L. Carlson, Maxwell Golburgh and Bessie Golburgh…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed the trial court's judgment in favor of the plaintiff, holding that both the general contractor and the subcontractor who erected the scaffold owed a duty of reasonable care to the plaintiff, that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applied, that the plaintiff did not assume the risk, and that the contract for scaffolding was oral and thus parol evidence was admissible.