Getzoff v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Bessie Getzoff, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of .the clerk.of the county of New York on the 22d day of January, 1900,.upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order' entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of January, 1900, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J. :
The plaintiff, while walking through Ludlow street in the city of New York, .between ten and eleven o’clock in the morning, on the: *45121st day of April, 1898, fell upon the sidewalk and was injured, and brings this action to recover from the city of New York the damages resulting from such in juries. She testified that in passing by, and in front of, No. 16 Ludlow street “ I fell on the sidewalk and 1 couldn’t get up. * * * After I fell on the sidewalk in front of No. 16 Ludlow street I saw the sidewalk after I was lifted up there was a hole in the sidewalk. I can’t tell the court…
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