O'Reilly v. Long Island Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Long Island Railroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of July, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of July, 1896, • denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. This appeal was transferred from the first department to the second department.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
This action is to recover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff by slipping on the sidewalk running in front of the defendant’s ferry house in Long Island City. The claim of the plaintiff is that she slipped by stepping on some small pebbles which were on the walk. It appears that the defendant had recently put on the ferry house a gravel roof, and at the time of the injury to the plaintiff was altering or repairing some dormer windows. The evidence would justify the inference that these pebbles or gravel and shavings fell on the walk from the defendant’s roof. On a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lafflin v. . Buffalo Southwestern R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1887
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