Jungjohann v. Hotel Buffalo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtKimball, J.
The plaintiff appealed from a judgment which dismissed his complaint in an action for personal injuries, upon a motion for nonsuit made at the close of the plaintiff’s case. We think that the granting of the nonsuit and dismissal of the complaint was error and that the plaintiff had made out a prima facie case of negligence under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.
The plaintiff’s proof showed that he was a guest of the defendant; that he was assigned and occupied a room in the hotel which had a shower hath; that, when using said shower bath, the plaintiff turned the porcelain handle of one of…
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