Brennan v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Hew York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on- the 30th day of March, 1906,, upon the yerdiot of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of April, 1906, denying' the defendant’s • motion for a new' trial made ,upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaynor, J.:
The plaintiff testified that she'slipped on the curb at the corner óf two streets and fell on the cross-walk; that she could not balance and save herself on the cross-walk on the ice and snow there, of which she gives no description. The first of her three witnesses to the accident says he saw her “ slip off the sidewalk,” try to balance herself in the gutter and fall on the- cross-walk; - and that the -sidewalk and cross-walk were “icy,” had “trodden down snow” on them, “ packed snow ” about. “ an inch or two thick,” and that she fell thereon. The next says substantially the same…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Taylor v. . City of YonkersNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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- Brennan v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909