Hamano

Plaintiff minor, then 12% years of age, sustained cuts and other personal injuries when she collided with a closed glass door while making her exit from a laundromat open to the general public and operated by defendant Bdelson. Two years prior to the incident, he had rented the premises from defendant Goldsmith. Negligence in the maintenance of the door was alleged, and damages demanded. A jury returned a verdict in favor of each defendant and against plaintiff ; her motion for new trial was subsequently denied. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered on the jury verdict.

It must be pointed out, preliminarily, that the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict is not challenged; however, a summary of the relevant facts becomes necessary in view of plaintiff’s contentions, some three in number, that procedural errors were committed by court and counsel which denied her a fair trial. The accident happened at mid-morning of a day in December. Plaintiff lived in an apartment building three doors from the laundromat which she had patronized, alone and with her mother, on many prior occasions. On the morning in question she left her home to visit a girl friend and stopped…