Tobias v. Lewis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Harris Lewis and another, 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 9th day of January, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $6,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The recovery was for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the negligence of the defendants.
The defendants owned a six-story tenement. house at No. 252 Monroe street in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York. The plaintiff with her mother occupied one of the apartments. On the evening of August 28, 1914, after dark and about nine o’clock, the plaintiff, who was then eleven years of age, was standing on the stoop in front of the building at the sidewalk visiting with friends and was struck on the head and severely injured by a board which…
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