Feneis v. Lewin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Isaac P. Lewin, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 15th day of April, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $10,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17th day of April, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, J.:
On June 25; 1916, George Feneis lived with his wife and three children aged eight, six and a half, and five years respectively, upon the third or top floor of defendant’s building on New Utrecht avenue in the borough of Brooklyn. They had resided there from May 1, 1916. Shortly after five o’clock in the morning of June twenty-fifth a fire occurred in the house, and in attempting to escape through one of the front windows Mrs. Feneis fell to the street, receiving injuries which resulted in her death, and Feneis was himself injured. This action was brought by the administrator to…
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