Moran v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Anastasia Moran, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 31st day of December, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, the jury having previously rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $1,500.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff was injured by a fall upon what was alleged to be an accumulation of snow and ice on the sidewalk of Columbia street in the borough of Brooklyn, but this is not quite accurate, for the plaintiff was injured in front of an alleyway, and the walk at that point is rather a crosswalk than a sidewalk, and the ordinance of the former city of Brooklyn in evidence in this case relates solely to the duty of persons to see to it that no snow or ice shall be permitted to “remain on the sidewalk and gutter in front of any house, building or lot occupied by him, or of any…
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