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MISLEVELED ELEVATOR TRIGGERS RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE.

The First Department determined the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur required the submission of this elevator-misleveling case to a jury. Plaintiff alleged she was injured removing a cart from the elevator:

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The misleveling of an elevator does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence, and the misleveling of the elevator in this case was caused by an instrumentality or agency within the defendants’ exclusive control and was not due to any voluntary action on plaintiff’s part. Accordingly, the evidence is sufficient to warrant submission of the case against the defendants to a jury on a theory of res ipsa loquitur … . Rojas v New York El. & Elec. Corp., 2017 NY Slip Op 04043, 1st Dept 5-18-17

NEGLIGENCE (MISLEVELED ELEVATOR TRIGGERS RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE)/EVIDENCE (RES IPSA LOQUTUR, MISLEVELED ELEVATOR TRIGGERS RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE)/RES IPSA LOQUITUR (MISLEVELED ELEVATOR TRIGGERS RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE)/ELEVATORS (NEGLIGENCE, MISLEVELED ELEVATOR TRIGGERS RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE)

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