Martin v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance 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 30th day of October, 1920, upon the verdict of a jury for $55,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of November, 1920, denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action is for negligence. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant in its tracing department on the eleventh *383floor of its building, No. 1 Madison avenue, New York city. This is a large building occupying the entire block, owned by defendant, and occupied both by the defendant and by tenants. Elevator service is maintained in the building for the use of employees and others, and it was in connection with the use of one of these elevators that the plaintiff was injured.
It seems to have been assumed upon the trial that the defendant was included among the employers who were…
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