Legal Opinion
Ricciardi v. Edison
Yonkers City Court
Decided July 7, 1994PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Richard B. Liebowitz, J.
The plaintiff lives at 351 Walnut Street, apartment No. 3 and has lived at that address for 34 years.
On April 14, 1994 a ceramic insulator on an electric wire broke, causing a power surge to enter the plaintiff’s residence. The insulator is an electrical installation that is owned, operated and maintained by the defendant utility company.
The power surge that resulted from the broken insulator damaged or destroyed a television, a VCR and a refrigerator *918owned by the plaintiff. The plaintiff testified that the power surge was so forceful that it…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Food Pageant, Inc. v. Consolidated Edison Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Austro v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1985
- Lee v. Consolidated Edison Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1978
- Newman v. Consolidated Edison Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1973
- Lockwood v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Chi Chao Yuan v. RiveraDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1999
- Higgins v. New York City Housing AuthorityCivil Court of the City of New York · 1999