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LEWIS v. METRO. TRANSP.

99 A.D.2d 246 (1984)

Evelina Lewis, Respondent, v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority et al., Appellants

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

February 28, 1984

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Mulholland of counsel (Mulholland, Minion & Roe, attorneys), for appellants.

S. Reid Kahn and Herbert Rand of counsel (Kane, Kessler, Proujansky, Preiss & Nurnberg, P. C., attorneys), for respondent.

ROSS and CARRO, JJ., concur with KASSAL, J.; SANDLER, J. P., and FEIN, J., concur in an opinion by FEIN, J.

KASSAL, J.

On September 28, 1978, plaintiff, then age 41 and concededly an obese woman, weighing between 180 and 230 pounds, was injured when she slipped and fell on the train platform while attempting to board a Long Island Railroad Company (LIRR) train at defendants' Northport station. Plaintiff, together with her daughter, Diane, had been visiting plaintiff's son at the Veterans Hospital. After taking a taxi...

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