Dunham v. City of New York

Action brought in the Municipal Court of the City of New York, to recover damages for the loss of an automobile parked by plaintiff on a parking field operated by the defendant municipality at the New York World’s Fair. At the trial the complaint was dismissed at the close of plaintiff’s proofs. From the judgment entered in favor of defendant, plaintiff appealed to the Appellate Term, Second Department, which thereafter reversed that judgment and granted a new trial. From that order defendant appealed, by permission [see 262 App. Div. 962], to this court and stipulated that judgment absolute…