Saphir v. Childs Co.

The action is to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by plaintiff while *637on the sidewalk on Eighth avenue in New York city near the entrance to Madison Square Garden, from which place she emerged with a large crowd of people and was crowded near to the wall of the building owned by defendant Eighth Avenue and Fiftieth Street Corporation and occupied, in part, by defendant Childs Company, Inc. There she stumbled over a water faucet projecting about four inches from the wall at a distance of about six inches above the sidewalk. The action was brought on the theory both of nuisance and…