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AMERICAN ELEVATOR CO. v. BRISCOE

No. 9069.

572 P.2d 534 (1977)

AMERICAN ELEVATOR COMPANY, a Copartnership, Gerald J. Monaghan, dba American Elevator Company and John M. Doyle, as Special Administrator of The Estate of Patrick Monaghan, Deceased, Appellants, v. Del L. BRISCOE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wait, Shamberger, Georgeson, & McQuaid, Reno, for appellants.

Peter Chase Neumann, Reno, for respondent.

OPINION

MANOUKIAN, Justice:

This case involves the claimed negligent maintenance of an elevator in the Holiday Hotel in Reno. On February 22, 1974, respondent Briscoe, an employee of the hotel, entered the elevator at the fifth floor intending to go to the sixth floor. Although Briscoe pressed the correct button, the elevator suddenly began a descent ending with a series of jarring stops at or near the first floor and finally settling to the basement level...

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