Hansen v. Serge Elevator Co.

Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, with $50 costs to appellants and the complaint dismissed. The decedent Herman Hansen was employed as superintendent of premises 80 West 40th Street, New York City and on December 13, 1957, when he was making repairs to a manually operated elevator at the bottom of the elevator shaft in the motor room, he was struck and killed by the descending elevator counterweight of an automatic elevator operated in the adjoining shaft. The defendant Serge Elevator Co., Inc., had converted the automatic elevator from a manual operated elevator in…