Schaefer v. Houck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Peter G. Houck, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 27th day of June, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $425, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
De Angelis, J.:
The action was for personal injuries alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendant. The defense was a general denial and charged the plaintiff with contributory negligence.
About three o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, November 26, 1916, the plaintiff fell from the lowest step of an outside stairway of the defendant’s apartment house in the city of Rochester, upon a cement walk and suffered certain injuries for which the jury have awarded her a verdict for $425. There were three stories in the apartment house. The plaintiff occupied an apartment in the second…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Grant v. . Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Rd. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Spencer v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Henson v. Lehigh Valley RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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- Armstrong v. RappNew York Supreme Court · 1937