Meng v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of December, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury for $100,000, reduced by consent to $70,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of January, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for negligence causing the death of Henry Bischoff, Jr., a j ustice of the Supreme Court in this department. The defendant was the owner of the premises 51 Chambers street, in Hew York city, several of the upper floors of which, including the twelfth and thirteenth floors, were held under lease by the city of Hew York and were used for the purposes of the Supreme Court and the justices thereof. On the 28th of March, 1913, Justice Bischoff came to his death by falling down the shaft of one of the several passenger elevators with which…
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