Graham v. Joseph H. Bauland Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Joseph H. Bauland Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 30 th day of March,. 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $9,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of April, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a riew trial Made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
This action arose from a fall which the plaintiff experienced in descending the stairs in defendant’s store to the basement. She stepped upon the round handle of a feather duster, thereby lost her balance and fell, so that she sat down with some violence at the foot of the flight. The jury has found a verdict of $9,000 in her favor, and the defendant appeals from the judgment entered thereon, and from the denial of the motion for a new trial.
There was evidence strongly suggestive of the fact that the feather duster had been left upon the stairway by Mary Winn, one of the…
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