Grimes v. Denner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the New York county clerk’s office, January 10, 1919, dismissing the complaint on motion by defendant at the close of plaintiff’s ease. Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Present — Clarke, P. J., Laughlin, Dowling, Page and Merrell, JJ.; Laughlin and Merrell, JJ., dissented.
1Dissent
Laughlin, J. (dissenting):
This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, through falling down a flight of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the basement of premises known as No. 366 West Fifty-second street, borough of Manhattan, New York, between ten and eleven o’clock on the morning of the 27th of August, 1917, alleged to have been caused by the loose condition of an iron railing guarding the opening in the sidewalk for the stairs and extending out from the building over the sidewalk at right angles on the easterly side of the stairs to a point in the…
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