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Shannon v. Broadway 41st Street Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 20, 1947
272 App. Div. 1029 (N.Y. App. Div. 1947)

Summary

In Shannon as in the instant case there was reliance on the passageway being unobstructed and appropriate to use as a means of ingress and egress.

Summary of this case from Madey v. Gray Drug Stores

Opinion

October 20, 1947.

For omitted decision of October 20, see post, p. 1038. — [REP.



Plaintiff, a patron of one of the defendant's Longchamps restaurants, on the assumption that he was passing through an unobstructed exit, walked into a plate glass window and was injured, for which he has recovered damages. The jury was free to find that the passageway, partitioned by the glass, had been used freely, prior to the accident as an entrance and an exit during the summer, and that the glass was not made visible by posters or any other device to one using the passageway. Judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Hagarty, Acting P.J., Nolan and Sneed, JJ., concur; Johnston and Adel, JJ., dissent and vote to reverse the judgment insofar as appealed from and to dismiss the complaint on the ground that no negligence on the part of defendant was established, and that, in any event, plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence.


Summaries of

Shannon v. Broadway 41st Street Corporation

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 20, 1947
272 App. Div. 1029 (N.Y. App. Div. 1947)

In Shannon as in the instant case there was reliance on the passageway being unobstructed and appropriate to use as a means of ingress and egress.

Summary of this case from Madey v. Gray Drug Stores

In Shannon v. Broadway 41st St. Corp. (272 App. Div. 1029, affd. 298 N.Y. 589) the plaintiff walked against a plate glass window in defendant's restaurant at Broadway and 41st Street in New York City. The windows could be lowered into the basement, and during the summer when it was lowered the window space was used as a means of ingress and egress.

Summary of this case from Madey v. Gray Drug Stores
Case details for

Shannon v. Broadway 41st Street Corporation

Case Details

Full title:CLIFFORD J. SHANNON, Respondent, v. BROADWAY 41ST STREET CORPORATION…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Oct 20, 1947

Citations

272 App. Div. 1029 (N.Y. App. Div. 1947)

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