Harkin v. Crumbie
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from an affirmance by. the General ■Term of the City Court of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the verdict óf a jury for $300 damages. The action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, while visiting a tenant of the defendant who lived in his apartment-house Ho. 334 East Sixty-sixth street.
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Appeal by the defendant from an affirmance by. the General ■Term of the City Court of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the verdict óf a jury for $300 damages. The action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, while visiting a tenant of the defendant who lived in his apartment-house Ho. 334 East Sixty-sixth street. In leaving the house at 10 o’clock at night on February 16, 1894, plaintiff slipped upon a patch of ice in front of the building in a passageway or courtyard leading from the stoop to the sidewalk.
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, P. J.
This case presents the question whether the landlord of an apartment-house, whose duty it is to use ordinary care to keep the approaches or passageway to it from the public street, used in common by his tenants, in a reasonably safe condition, is liable for an injury to a visitor to one of his tenants caused by slipping upon a patch of smooth ice which was formed by natural causes and not removed by him from such approaches or passageway within a reasonable time after the. fall of snow and sleet which caused it.
If an injury had occurred from such a cause to one traveling on the sidewalk of a…
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