Casal v. City of New York

Motion to set aside verdict of jury. This case was tried before me on October 27 and 28, 1947, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $9,375. The accident in the case at bar occurred on December 29, 1944, at about 5:30 in the evening in front of a vacant lot on Thompson Street, in the borough of Manhattan. The testimony showed that the plaintiff fell on a piece of rough ice on the sidewalk in front of the lot in question. She testified that for four or five days before the accident she noticed ice on the sidewalk at the scene of the accident and that the ice was the same…