Mack v. Wanamaker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeals by the defendant from judgments of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 29th day of January, 1912, and from orders entered in said office on the same day, denying motions for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
The main question in the above-entitled actions is the same that has been considered' by this court in the case of Rumetsch v. Wanamaker, New York Inc. (ante, p. 800); decided herewith. In these cases, as in that, plaintiff sought to establish defendant’s negligence, based not only upon faults of original construction in the straps supporting the elevator, but defects in the mechanism arising from the use thereof, which careful inspection should have disclosed. These alleged defects related to the condition of the safety appliances and of the straps themselves. With regard to the…
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