Ramsey v. St. Barnabas Hospital

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered in the office of the clerk on January 28, 1976, unanimously affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. In the absence of competent evidence causally connecting the fall of defendant’s elevator wherein plaintiff was a passenger at the time with plaintiff’s condition which required the laminectomy performed on her two years and nine months later, the trial court correctly excluded the hypothetical question asked of plaintiff’s medical expert which sought to bridge that gap. The record also established that other incidents which may…