Provenzano v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J., and a jury), entered August 10, 1999, in favor of defendants and against plaintiff, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs posttrial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial was properly denied. Evidence at trial showed that plaintiff was guiding the sanitation truck driven by the individual defendant through a difficult turn; that plaintiff signaled defendant intending that he straighten the wheels; that defendant interpreted the signal to mean that he move forward; and that the truck then came into…