Green v. Village of Port Jervis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Village of Port Jervis, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 29th day of March, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Orange Special Term overruling the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The plaintiff sites to recover damages arising from serious and permanent personal injuries received in a fall on one of the defendant’s streets, on the 16th day of February, 1899, occasioned by the defendant’s negligence. Section 82 of the defendant’s charter (Chap. 529, Laws of 1896) provides as follows : “ No action against said village for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of negligence of such village or of any departments, board, officer, agent or employe thereof, shall be maintained unless the same shall be commenced within one year…
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