Minton v. City of Syracuse
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Harry Minton, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 19th day of October, 1915, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the opening on a trial before the court and a jury at the Onondaga Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, J.:
Plaintiff was injured on the evening of February 10, 1915, while attempting to pass over a crosswalk across North G-eddes street, on account of this walk being covered with loose pieces of snow and ice upon which plaintiff stumbled and fell.
It is alleged that the snow had been allowed to accumulate and remain on this crosswalk to a depth of five or six inches and had become hard packed from being tramped down by the use of the crosswalk and the use of the street; that on the afternoon of the same day of the accident, which occurred at about seven o’clock, laborers in the employ of…
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