Minton v. Richmond Bennett Corp.

— In an action to recover damages for personal injury sustained in a fall on ice, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County, entered December 15, 1964 after trial, upon a jury’s verdict in the plaintiff’s favor for $25,000. Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and complaint dismissed, without costs. Upon all the evidence, plaintiff has failed to establish that the ice on the sidewalk, upon which he slipped, resulted from water artifieally diverted onto the sidewalk from the abutting premises (cf. Cannon v. Pfleider, 19 A D 2d 625).…