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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George E. Throckmorton, Respondent, v. Charles G. Meinken, Appellant.
    
      Nuisance — pedestrian injured by being struck by a shaft cover blown from top of building.
    
    
      Throckmorton v. Meinken, 216 App. Div. 807, affirmed.
    (Argued January 25, 1927;
    decided February 23, 1927.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 3, 1926, unanimously affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the maintenance by defendant of a nuisance. The complaint alleged that the defendant was the lessee in possession of premises 427 West Thirteenth street, New York city, and that on January' 24, 1919, while the plaintiff was lawfully upon the public highway, an elevator shaft cover was maintained by the defendant in such a careless, negligent and defective condition that it was caused and permitted to blow from the said premises, striking the plaintiff, and causing the injuries complained of.
    
      F. A. W. Ireland for appellant.
    
      Thomas J. O’ Neill and Leonard F. Fish for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.