Bullock v. Mount Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc.

BARKDULL, Judge.

The appellants brought a negligence action 1 to recover for damages sustained by the minor plaintiff while she was working as a “candy striper” at Mount Sinai Hospital where she sustained injuries because of a failure of an elevator car or cage to level with the floor. Error is urged in the trial court’s limiting plaintiffs opening statement to five miniates and the failure to permit certain cross-examination, the directing of a verdict in favor of Mount Sinai on an independent claim for active negligence and lastly, refusal to give an instruction on an unexplained lost or…