Colaruotolo v. City of Cohoes

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at a Trial Term, entered July 1, 1971 in Albany County, upon a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiffs and from an order of the Supreme Court at a Trial Term, entered July 9, 1971 in Albany County, which denied the motion of defendant City of Cohoes for an order setting aside the verdict. On February 15, 1967, employees of the Public Works Department of the City of Cohoes, accompanied by Lieutenant Donohue and two other Cohoes patrolmen, went to the Dyke Avenue area of the city to pump surface water out of a concrete manhole. This action was to be…