Dougherty v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Grace Dougherty, an infant, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the. office of the clerk of the. county of New York on the 14th day of February, 1911, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court as to the defendant The City of New York at the close of the plaintiff’s case on á trial, at the New York Trial Term, and as to the defendant Bradley at the close of the whole case.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
About eight o’clock, in the morning of the 24th day of August, 1907, plaintiff was lawfully passing westerly along the southerly sidewalk of Delancey street, borough of Manhattan, New York,, and when in front of No. 117, which is a little more than one. block west of the Williamsburg bridge, a flagstone, forming part of the' sidewalk, upon which she stepped, sank into an excavation made by the defendant Bradley for the construction of the Williamsburg bridge loop subway, carrying ■her down with it, and she sustained injuries to recover for which this action was brought. She…
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