Slater v. Town of Rochester

P. Appeal from a judgment upon a jury verdict following a trial of a negligence action. The accident occurred when an automobile owned and operated by Anna Slater, and in which her daughter Joyce was a passenger, allegedly drove into a hole on a bridge owned and maintained by the defendant Town of Rochester. The plaintiffs offered proof to show that the bridge on the day in question and for some time prior thereto had been in a “ state of disrepair ”, of which the town had actual notice. There were factual issues of negligence and contributory negligence which were submitted to the jury by a…