Legal Opinion
Levine v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 8, 1955PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Conway, Ch. J.
Across the street from the house in which the infant plaintiff lived in a residential section of a crowded city there was a stairway which formed a part of a connecting public thoroughfare. Along at least one side of this stairway there was a handrail composed of two tubular iron pipes set one above the other about two feet apart and running parallel to the ground. At the foot of this stairway there was a concrete post or pillar to which this railing had originally been fastened; but over the course of time the top bar of the railing apparently had been broken off so that there…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Larmore v. . Crown Point Iron Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Sadowski v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1944
- Collentine v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
- Jewhurst v. . City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Cruz v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
- Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. v. FMC Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Acusport, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 2003
- NAACP v. AcuSport, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 2003
- Abrams v. ButeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
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