Rosen v. New York City Transit Authority

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered on or about October 23, 2000, which, in an action by a pedestrian hit by a car for personal injuries allegedly caused by the negligent design and construction of defendant contractor’s pedestrian walkway at a construction site, granted defendant’s posttrial motion for judgment setting aside, as a matter of law, a verdict finding it 25% responsible for plaintiffs injuries, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

No valid line of reasoning can support a finding that defendant’s walkway in any manner contributed to the accident…