Green v. Urban Contracting & Heating Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the Urban Contracting and Heating Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $11,000, and also by each defendant from an order denying such defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, which orders were entered in said clerk’s office respectively on the 20th and 21st…
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Appeal by the defendants, the Urban Contracting and Heating Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 21st day of December, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $11,000, and also by each defendant from an order denying such defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, which orders were entered in said clerk’s office respectively on the 20th and 21st days of December, 1904.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The defendant Oppenheimer was the owner of a building at the corner of Seventeenth street and Fifth avenue in the city of New York, having purchased the building in January, 1904. In this. building there was a passenger elevator on the Fifth avenue front and a freight elevator on a passageway opening into Seventeenth street in the rear of the building. The firm of Peller Brothers occupied two of the lofts in the building and their employees were in the habit of using the freight elevator for access to the Peller lofts. This elevator was operated by electricity, and when the…
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