Gainfort v. 229 Raritan Avenue Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

On September 30th, 1937, plaintiff fell on the sidewalk fronting the building designated as No. 229 Baritan Avenue, in Highland Park; and she sued to recover damages for the ensuing injury on the hypothesis that the causative agent was a nuisance created or suffered by the defendant landowner’s predecessor in title in the subsidence oí a section of the concrete surface between one and a half and two inches below the normal pavement level due to basic structural insufficiency. The jury found for the plaintiff; and defendant appeals from the…