Jackson v. Millar Elevator Industries, Inc.

Order of the Supreme Court, New York County (C. Whitman, J.), entered on December 30, 1981, which denied plaintiff’s petition for leave to serve an amended complaint with an increased ad damnum clause, and to remove the action from the Civil Court of the City of New York to Supreme Court, New York County, is unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and in the exercise of discretion, without costs, and the petition is granted. On January 6, 1977, in the course of her employment as a maid in a hotel, plaintiff was injured as she stepped from an elevator manufactured by the defendant.…