HENNESSEY v. LONG ISLAND UNIV.


51 A.D.2d 965 (1976)

Julia Hennessey, as Administratrix of The Estate of John L. Hennessey, Deceased, Appellant, v. Long Island University et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 1, 1976


Judgment reversed, on the law and in the interests of justice, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.

The questions of fact have been considered and we would not grant a new trial upon those questions. The decedent, a Burns detective guard assigned to the Long Island University campus building in Brooklyn, New York, on a Sunday afternoon when regular classes were not being held, walked into an open elevator pit, apparently in the belief that the unlit...

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