Shoupe v. 2525 Amsterdam Avenue Corp.

In this action for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained by the infant plaintiff when she fell on a stairway in defendant’s building, and for loss of services and medical expenses on behalf of the infant’s father, defendant appeals from a judgment for $500 in favor of the infant plaintiff and $150 in favor of the father entered on a jury’s verdict in plaintiffs’ favor after a trial before the court and a jury.

The infant plaintiff claimed that she slipped on garbage while descending the stairway between the second and third floors in the defendant’s premises on the afternoon of…