COLEMAN v. OTIS ELEVATOR CO.

No. 90-CA-1695.

582 So.2d 341 (1991)

Terry COLEMAN v. OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, United Technologies Corporation and Cigna Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

June 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Leach, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, for Otis Elevator Co. defendant-appellant.

Irwin R. Sanders, Metairie, for Terry Coleman plaintiff-appellee.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and BARRY, BYRNES, CIACCIO and WARD, JJ.


WARD, Judge.

OTIS Elevator Company (OTIS) appeals a judgment awarding damages to Terry Coleman for injuries received when an elevator in Charity Hospital in New Orleans came to a sudden stop between floors.

On December 31, 1987, after visiting a patient, Mr. Coleman entered the No. 2 passenger elevator on the seventh floor to get to the first floor to leave the hospital. Coleman testified that the elevator proceeded to the first floor level when the elevator...

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