Case Name: Charles Joseph Kingsley, Respondent, v. George Pappas and Peter Karris, as Copartners, Doing Business under the Firm Name and Style of Friend's Restaurant, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1940-07-02
Citations: 259 A.D. 1112
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles Joseph Kingsley, Respondent, v. George Pappas and Peter Karris, as Copartners, Doing Business under the Firm Name and Style of Friend’s Restaurant, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 259
Pages: 1112–1112

Head Matter:
Charles Joseph Kingsley, Respondent, v. George Pappas and Peter Karris, as Copartners, Doing Business under the Firm Name and Style of Friend’s Restaurant, Appellants.

Opinion:
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the Albany county clerk's office on December 14, 1939, in favor of plaintiff against defendants for $2,123 upon the verdict of a jury and from an order, entered on December 21, 1939, denying a motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial. This is a negligence action. Defendants operated a small restaurant. Plaintiff, a customer, asked to see defendant Karris and was directed by a waitress to go into the kitchen. Upon entering the kitchen plaintiff fell through an open and unguarded trap door a step or two inside the door leading into the kitchen, and was injured. Judgment and order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Present — Hill, P. J., Bliss, Heffernan, Schenek and Foster, JJ.