Legal Opinion

Rucker v. Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc.

New York Court of Appeals

Decided October 15, 1964PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Order reversed and the complaint dismissed, without costs, upon the ground, fully developed in the dissenting opinion at the Appellate Division, that the plaintiff failed, as a matter of law, to establish actionable negligence. The cases cited in the opinion for affirmance are inapposite. In each of them, a question of fact as to defendant’s negligence was held to exist by reason of the undisputed proof that the operator of the *518vehicle failed ;to. see plaintiff. (or plaintiff’s intestate) even though, the. latter was in plain and.unobstructed view and in the direct path of the vehicle.

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2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Miller v. Sisters of the Order of St. DominicAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
  2. Splain v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  3. Williams v. HooperAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
  4. Williams v. HooperAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  5. Dennis v. WoodAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

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