Hente v. Shercoop Corp.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff on January 30, 1937, in falling down an elevator shaft which had a defective door or gate, in a six-story building owned in fee by the defendant Shercoop Corporation (hereinafter called Shercoop) and leased in its entirety by it to the codefendant Bostock Rhoades & Co., Inc. (hereinafter called Bostock). The jury returned a substantial verdict for the plain- 1 *322tiff against both defendants. The defendant Shercoop moved to dismiss the complaint as against it at the end of the plaintiff’s case, and renewed the…