GALLIS v. PEELLE COMPANY

No. 161, Docket 25281.

264 F.2d 663 (1959)

Nicholas GALLIS, as Guardian-ad-Litem of Elaine Gallis, an infant under the age of fourteen years, Nicholas Gallis, Cecile Gallis and Felicia Marchione, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PEELLE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Timbers, Skadden, Arps, Slate & Timbers, New York City (William S. O'Connor, New York, and Barry H. Garfinkel, Skadden, Arps, Slate & Timbers, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Samuel M. Sprafkin, New York City (Rosoff & Rosoff, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HAND and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges, and BYERS, District Judge.


HAND, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for the plaintiffs of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Bicks, J., presiding, in an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered upon an "escalator" installed, and "supervised," by the defendant in the Bus Terminal of the Port of New York Authority in the Borough of Manhattan. The plaintiffs were going to New York from their home in New Jersey, and after leaving their bus at the...

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