Pardington v. Abraham
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Abraham Abraham and others, from a judgment of the. Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 19th day of March, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from , an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of March, 1903, denying-the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
■ The plaintiff was injured by being struck by a swinging door, as she was coming out of the department store of the defendants. In her complaint she alleges that “ in consequence of the negligent, unsafe and improper construction, arrangement and management of said door and of the springs attached thereto, said door swung back with great and dangerous force and struck the plaintiff a violent blow on the head and body.” She testifies that, as she started to go out, - the door was open, and just as she reached the sill, a woman who was ahead of.her left the door and it…
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