Cohn v. Ansonia Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ansonia Realty Company, 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 22d day of October, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of November, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
Plaintiff, a young married woman with three children, lived in an apartment on the ground floor of a house owned *792by defendant. The elevator shaft was directly opposite the door to her apartment and distant therefrom only three or four feet. She left her apartment with her children, who ran ahead into the elevator car, while plaintiff turned to lock her door. When she faced about again she saw the car ascending with her two children in it and no operator, and the door opening from the hallway into the elevator shaft as well as the door of the car open. She was so overcome by fright…
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