Legal Opinion
Echevarria v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 29, 2007PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Wilma Gomez, J.), entered September 8, 2006, upon jury verdict awarding plaintiff $418,000 in damages and finding defendant 100% at fault, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to plaintiff, as we are required to do, the jury was warranted in finding that defendant’s negligence was a substantial factor in causing the accident and that plaintiff was not negligent (see Strauss v New York City Tr. Auth., 305 AD2d 160 [2003], lv denied 100 NY2d 513 [2003]).
Plaintiff testified that he slipped and fell after…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Levy v. City Commission on Human RightsNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
- Huerta v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
- Strauss v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
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