Winckler v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of October, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury for $7,150, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of October, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
On the evening of February 19, 1905,, the plaintiff, while walking on the sidewalk on Fifty-fifth street, between Eighth avenue and Broadway, in the city of New York, fell and was injured, for which she has recovered a judgment against the city of New York. She testified that as she was walking along on the sidewalk she came to an obstruction and slipped and fell; that she noticed that this obstruction was near a hydrant and there was an accumulation of snow on the sidewalk; that there were large piles of snow on both sides of the street; that this obstruction was something hard…
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- Crawford v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Crawford v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
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