Fischer v. City of New York

In this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained hy plaintiffs’ intestate and for medical expenses and loss of services hy her husband, the cause was tried by the court without a jury.

On the morning of January 15, 1951, the intestate, then seventy-six years of age, was injured when she fell while walking on a public sidewalk on the east side of Vernon Avenue, some twenty-five feet south of 40th Avenue, Long Island City, New York. She was removed by an ambulance to St. John’s Hospital, Long Island City, where she stayed for about an hour and a half. She was then taken to the…