Lifton v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.

Plaintiff on November 28, 1939, while returning from lunch, entered an elevator in defendant’s premises. She had been employed there for about three months.

In endeavoring to alight at the fourth floor, she was precipitated in some manner face downward upon the floor of the loft. She sustained injuries through the alleged negligence of the defendant for which she has here recovered.

The elevator in question had two doors, an inner and an outer. The outer door had two parts, an upper and lower, and when opened by the operator the upper part would ascend and the lower part descend to the level of…