Murphy v. McMahon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Patrick McMahon, 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 16th day of February, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of February, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The defendant was the owner of an apartment house known as No. 452 West Fifty-seventh street; and the infant plaintiff resided with her mother in an apartment on the second floor of the building. The action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the infant through the alleged negligence of the defendant ip failing to keep the carpet on the stairway leading from the second floor to the ground floor of the apartment house in a proper state of repair.
According to the evidence introduced in behalf of the plaintiff the carpet on the upper step of the stairway, which…
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