Sotel v. City of New York

These six actions were by the consent of counsel tried together before the court without a jury. The several owners of the premises numbered 520, 522, 524, 526, 528 and 530 Fifty-second street, Brooklyn, are suing the city of New York for damages to their respective buildings claimed to have been caused by the stoppage of the sewer in Fifty-second *346street and the consequent backing up of the water flowing into the same. Attention was first called to the condition, as far as the evidence discloses, on Sunday, January 1, 1911, when the witness Sotel, husband of one of the plaintiffs, who lives…