Pigott v. Livingston Village, Inc.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Trial Term in Albany County which dismissed the complaint in a negligence action at the close of the plaintiffs’ case. Plaintiffs allege that the infant plaintiff, then between two and three years old, was injured when he inserted one hand in the lint trap of a coin-operated automatic dryer installed by defendant Todd in the laundry room of defendant corporation’s apartment building, in which the infant’s parents were tenants. The uncontradicted evidence was that the machine was a standard model of a well-known make and in common use and there is…