Case Name: Larkin Company, Appellant, v. Terminal Warehouse Company, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1917-11-13
Citations: 221 N.Y. 707
Docket Number: 
Parties: Larkin Company, Appellant, v. Terminal Warehouse Company, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 221
Pages: 707–709

Head Matter:
Larkin Company, Appellant, v. Terminal Warehouse Company, Respondent.
(Argued October 22, 1917;
decided November 13, 1917.)
Larkin Co. v. Terminal Warehouse Co., 161 App. Div. 262, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 23,1914, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon an order of the court at a Trial Term setting aside a verdict in favor of plaintiff and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, its landlord, to recover the sum of $4,060 paid by the plaintiff to the estate of one William Grosser, an employee of the plaintiff, killed by falling from an elevator in a warehouse building owned by the defendant and leased to various tenants, of which the plaintiff was one, together with the fee paid by the plaintiff to its attorney in connection with said settlement. The ground alleged by the plaintiff for recovery against the defendant was that the elevator was negligently maintained by the defendant.
Paul Armitage and Henry D. Donnelly for appellant.
Bertrand L. Pettigrew and Walter L. Glenney for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion of Laughlin, J., below.
Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Collin, Hogan and Cardozo, JJ. Dissenting: Chase, J. Not sitting: McLaughlin, J.