Wilmot v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*202OPINION OF THE COURT
Fein, J. P.
This is an appeal by the City of New York (City) from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $90,000 against the City and the Jeny Cab Corp. (Jeny), and apportioning the damages 40% against the City and 60% against Jeny.
It is undisputed that plaintiff was injured when the taxi in which she was a passenger struck the rear of a stopped unmarked police patrol car in the southbound lanes of the elevated Bruckner Expressway in The Bronx, where four lanes merge into three. Although all four witnesses to the accident agreed that the taxi struck the…
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