Sullivan v. New York Telephone Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by the defendants, the New York Telephone Company and another, 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 13th day of January, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of January, 1913, denying defendants’ respective motions for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the 29th day of November, 1910, the plaintiff, while passing along Forty-second street, observed the usual “Blue Bell ” sign, so called, for a public telephone in the window on the street or ground floor of premises known as No. 3 East Forty-second street, in the borough of Manhattan, New York, occupied by the defendant Barr as a shoe store, and she entered for the purpose of telephoning and was directed by Barr to the *644telephone, and, after using it and while passing toward the desk of the cashier to pay the charges, she stepped into an opening in the floor within a few feet…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Laguttuta v. ChisolmAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Thomas v. SpringerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
3Cited by6 opinions
- Green v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1968
- Schramm v. Arsenal Esso StationNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1973
- Gallagher v. Waynesboro Mutual Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1925
- Hill v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1914
- Adams v. FerraroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1973
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