Cohn v. Ansonia Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ansonia Realty 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 22d day of October, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of November, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1DissentMcLaughlin, J.
The plaintiff, with her husband and three children, occupied an apartment on the ground floor of defendant’s apartment house, in which it, for the use of the tenants, maintained an electric elevator. The door to the apartment occupied by plaintiff was located some three or four feet from the entrance to the elevator. On the 19th of December, 1910, the plaintiff left her apartment with two of her children, aged three and four years respectively, for the purpose of going to the third floor. While she was locking the door to her apartment the two children entered the elevator and as she turned…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mitchell v. . Rochester Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Hack v. DadyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909