The window washer's name was Jones. Mr. Fishbein was a pedestrian walking innocently down 34th Street.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Fortune Cookie (1966) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:34:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Rubbish! All the legal precedents are on our side.
- That so? What about Fishbein vs. the Empire State Building?
- You'll find it in volume 16, New York supplement 2, page 45, 1939.
- A window washer, 61st floor. The safety belt broke, and...
- As a window washer, Mr. Fishbein was taking a normal occupational risk.
- And the next thing he knew, he was splattered all over the sidewalk.
- The widow sued, was awarded $85,000. Case appealed. Judgment upheld.
- Volume 259, Appellate Division, page 56. Also volume 24, New York supplement 2, page 168, 1940.
- Maybe in New York they throw money around like that.
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