Legal Opinion
Mercado v. Vega
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 2, 1991PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs to abide the event, and a new trial granted.
Defendant New York City, by this Court’s grant of leave, appeals from an order affirming a money judgment in favor of plaintiff. Plaintiff was a passenger in a civilian vehicle which crashed in The Bronx after a high-speed police chase. Plaintiff’s driver was killed and plaintiff was seriously injured. The dispositive issue among those advanced by the City is whether, under the evidentiary facts and liability theories of this case, it was entitled to…
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