Murphy v. Broadway Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the plaintiff, Matilda Murphy, for a new trial upon a case containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance upon the decision of the court dismissing the complaint at the close of the plaintiff’s case after a trial at the New York Trial Term, in January, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The action was to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff by falling down a stairway on the defendant’s premises.
The defendant is the owner and in control of the building on the southwest corner of Broadway and Fourteenth street in the borough of Manhattan. The corner store is occupied by one Hilton as a clothing store. On the Fourteenth street and Broadway fronts there are show windows. On the Broadway front one show window extends from the corner to the entrance to the store. Another show window extends from the store entrance to the entrance to the building and extends…
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