Gage v. Waldorf Astoria Hotel Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, ninth district, dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtLehman, J.
The plaintiff was injured by the fall of an elevator operated by the defendant in its hotel. It appears that the plaintiff entered the elevator with a number of other persons upon the invitation of the defendant; that when the elevator reached the floor where the passengers desired to alight the operator failed to stop; that the elevator first went up too far, then dropped down and finally fell to the.bottom. The trial justice held that the circumstances surrounding the accident were sufficient to allow the reasonable inference that the elevator would not have fallen if it had been operated…
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sweeney v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
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