Hoffman v. Florida East Coast Hotel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Florida East Coast Hotel 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 20th day of May, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $16,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 24th day.of May, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The recovery was for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff from stepping into and falling down an elevator shaft, about eight o’clock in the morning on the 23d of February, 1917, at the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla., which the defendant evidently owned and operated in connection with its railroad. The, plaintiff was about thirty-three years of age and was employed as lady’s maid by one of the guests of the hotel. She arrived at the hotel a day or two before the accident. Her mistress desired some linen sheets to cover her gowns and instructed plaintiff to obtain them. After…
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