Storey v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Appellant, plaintiff below, appeals an order granting a directed verdict in favor of defendants. We reverse.

Plaintiff was an operator of an elevator on a construction site. When his elevator unexpectedly fell two stories, ap-pellee Westinghouse Electric Corporation, defendant below, repaired it. Within the first few trips after the repair, the elevator fell six stories and stopped abruptly, injuring plaintiff.

The plaintiff testified that the elevator was in the fully automatic mode when the accident occurred. That being so, the case is squarely controlled by Wolpert v. Washington Square…