SCHURR v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY


307 A.D.2d 837 (2003)

763 N.Y.S.2d 304

LORETTA SCHURR, Appellant, v. PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY et al., Defendants, and CONTINENTAL AIRLINES et al., Respondents.

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

Decided August 14, 2003.


Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for injuries she allegedly sustained when she tripped and fell while descending the stairs of a stopped escalator. She attributes the loss of her footing to the uneven spacing of the stopped escalator's risers. The record, however, contains no evidence warranting the inference that the stopped escalator posed a reasonably foreseeable hazard to those who, like plaintiff, used it in the manner of a staircase to reach the next floor...

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