Deufel v. Long Island City
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Long Island City, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 19th day of October, 1896, upon .the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of October, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The plaintiff charges negligence of the defendant and his personal injury as the consequence. Within the first hour of January 1, 189.5, the plaintiff, walking on the sidewalk of Raddy. street in Long Island City, slipped and fell and received an injury. The ■negligence charged against the defendant is. that it permitted, snow *621and ice to accumulate and remain on the sidewalk, and it appears that a hole was also permitted to remain in the walk near the curb. The evidence tended to prove that snow and ice had been on the walk at the place in question for a week ór more, and that, by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pomfrey v. . Village of Saratoga SpringsNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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- Foye v. City of New YorkAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1928