Biggs v. City of Geneva
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Geneva, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Ontario Trial Term and entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Ontario on the 3d day of June, 1904, denying the defendant’s.motion to set aside the verdict of. a jury in. favor of the plaintiff and for a new trial made upon the . minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.:
The order, should be reversed, with costs to the appellant to abide event, and the motion granted, Upon questions-of law only, the facts having been examined and no error found therein.
The action is against a municipal corporation to recover damages for injuries, to the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of-the defendant. The plaintiff fell upon an icy sidewalk and broke his wrist on the 10th day of February, 1902. The charter of the defendant (Laws of 1897, chap. 360, § 33) provides that “ no action or proceeding shall be maintained against the city for…
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