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Helen Murphy, as Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph Murphy, Deceased, Appellant, v. Stanley Court Realty and Construction Company, Respondent.
    (Argued September 29, 1926;
    decided October 19, 1926.)
    
      Negligence — elevators — action to recover for death from fall down elevator shaft — complaint dismissed for failure of proof of negligence on part of defendant.
    
    
      Murphy v. Stanley Court Realty & Const. Co., 216 App. Div. 736, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered April 19, 1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and directing a dismissal of the complaint in an action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate alleged to have been occasioned through the negligence of defendant. Intestate went into defendant’s building to deliver merchandise to a tenant, entered the elevator and got off at the second floor, the elevator proceeding to the tenth floor. On its down trip the operator found the shaft door at the second floor open and upon examination intestate’s body was found at the bottom of the shaft. The complaint was dismissed on the ground that there was no proof of negligence on the part of defendant.
    Judgment affirmed, with costs;
    
      Frank L. Tyson for appellant.
    
      Bertrand L. Pettigrew for respondent.
   no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, McLaughlin, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.

Dissenting: Pound and Crane, JJ.