Sarconi v. One Hundred & Twenty-Two West Twenty-Sixth Street Corp.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the negligent operation of a freight elevator by the defendant. The complaint alleges in substance that on February 11, 1924; in a building owned by defendant, while plaintiff was using a freight elevator in the act of removing some bags of waste paper therefrom which he had brought down from an upper story, the elevator, through the negligence of defendant, was suddenly raised, causing plaintiff to fall into the shaft. The plaintiff testified that it was a freight elevator…