Tkach v. Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases

Respondent Pauline Tkach has recovered a judgment in the City Court of the City of New York against appellant for injuries sustained on March 23, 1939, by plaster falling from the ceiling in the kitchen of her apartment in appellant’s multiple dwelling. Her husband, the other respondent, also obtained a judgment in the same action for loss of his wife’s services.

' On November 30, 1937, appellant, Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases, leased the entire building to the impleaded defendant, Meyer Hurwitz. This lease was in effect on the date of the accident. Two or three months before the…