Legal Opinion
Jokelson v. Allied Stores Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 17, 1968PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcNally, J.
This is an appeal by defendant-appellant, Allied Stores Corp., doing business as Stern Bros., from a judgment entered on a 10-to-2 jury verdict for an infant plaintiff in the sum of $237,500 and in favor of his father in the sum of $35,200.
Plaintiffs’ amended complaint alleges the infant plaintiff was injured on December 27, 1961, when he was “ caused to be thrown and to fall ” on an escalator in Stern’s Department Store at 42nd Street in Manhattan. The claimed negligence of Stern consisted of allowing large and unruly crowds on the escalator without adequate supervision, in failing to…
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