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

Vincenza Russo, Respondent, v. Building Operation Company, Appellant, Impleaded with Others.
    
      Negligence — elevators — open door into elevator shaft ■—injury from fall.
    
    
      Russo v. Building Operation Co., 209 App. Div. 861, afdrmed.
    (Argued October 19, 1925;
    decided November 24, 1925.)
    Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 10, 1924, 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 negligence of defendants. Plaintiff while in the employ of a tenant in a loft building in charge of defendant, appellant, walked through an open elevator door upon the street level, intending to board the elevator, and fell to the bottom of the shaft, receiving the injuries complained of.
    
      
      Edward P. Mowton for appellant.
    
      James F. Mahan, John C. Robinson and Morris A. Wainger for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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