Christensen v. James S. Hannon, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment, entered June 30, 1919, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The evidence of the plaintiff shows that Nos. 445 and 447 West Sixteenth street, New York, were adjoining buildings. No 445 was twenty-five feet wide and one hundred feet deep and was separated from No. 447 on the first floor by a brick partition. Twenty-five feet back from the street there was an opening through this partition of twelve feet. In the front of 445 were solid doors, shut at the time of the accident, and also a window five or six feet wide. Its floor was of dark cement. At the rear was the shaft of a freight elevator extending half way across the floor space. The inside walls of…
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