Vodery v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of defendant, entered June 6, 1974 in Columbia County, upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term at the close of plaintiff’s case. The plaintiff Mildred Vodery on January 14, 1972 saw smoke coming from her cellar. She went into the cellar to investigate and found smoke and fire coming from the furnace. In her rush to get out of the cellar she fell, sustaining injury to her left knee. About an hour prior to this incident, employees of defendant Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation had turned off the power to plaintiff’s…