Smith v. Munger

NEPTUNE, Judge.

On the 20th of March, 1971, plaintiff, a 42-year-old secretary for a tenant in the office building of defendants known as Broadway Tower, was severely injured while attempting to board a passenger elevator. One of the two passenger elevator cars serving the Tower was stopped on the 11th floor level and the doors were opened by the operator for plaintiff and her employer to enter. As plaintiff stepped forward across the threshold, the elevator lurched upward about 18 inches, throwing plaintiff down to the car floor with her body in the car and her legs outside the car through…