Wroblewski v. Otis Elevator Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, P. J.
This is an appeal by a plaintiff from a judgment of no cause of action in a negligence action.
*295Appellant was an elevator operator for the New York Telephone Company, employed in its building on State Street in the City of Albany, New York. On the 11th day of May, 1953, she discharged her last passenger from the elevator she was operating, on to the seventh floor of the building, then placed the control handle in an up position, but the elevator, instead of going up, plunged downward until it forcibly struck the buffer in the pit at the foot of the elevator shaft. As a result of this fall she…
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