Moran v. Bendora Realty Corp.

Order of the Appellate Term, reversing a judgment of the City Court of the City of New York, County of Queens, entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiffs, and dismissing the complaint, reversed on the law, with costs in this court and the Appellate Term, and judgment of the City Court affirmed. Plaintiffs were tenants in a multiple dwelling owned by the defendant. Defendant removed a clothes dryer in the kitchen and installed a new one and three weeks thereafter, while the plaintiff-wife was using the clothes dryer, the rope broke, causing the dryer to fall and injure her. Even though the…