Case ID: ny_237/html/0505-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James F. D. Cochenour, as Administrator of the Estate of William D. Cochenour, Deceased, Respondent, v. George H. Jackson, Appellant.
    
      Landlord and tenant — neglect of landlord to keep apartment properly heated — when liable for death of child of tenant from, illness caused thereby.
    
    
      Cochenour v. Jackson, 206 App. Div. 765, affirmed.
    (Argued October 15, 1923;
    decided November 20, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 20, 1923, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been occasioned through the neglect of defendant, the owner of an apartment house, to keep the apartment in which he resided heated during the month of January and part of February, 1920, as a result of which said plaintiff’s intestate became ill and died.
    
      Bertrand L. Pettigrew for appellant.
    
      Theodore H. Lord for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cabdozo, Potjnd, McLaughlin, Cbane and Andbews, JJ.