Schaefer v. DeNeergaard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Julius DeNeergaard, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of November, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Greenbaum, J.:
The complaint alleges that the defendant was in occupancy of the store in premises 450 Fifth avenue, Brooklyn; that on or about March 19, 1918, while plaintiff was lawfully in the store and in the act of leaving it, she “ was caused to and did fall over, upon and by reason of the step or platform in front of the entrance to said premises,” whereby she sustained various injuries due to “ the negligence and carelessness of the defendant in maintaining said step in front of said premises in a negligent,, careless and unlawful manner, in allowing said step to become defective and…
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