Huang v. New York City Transit Authority

A fair interpretation of the trial evidence supports the jury’s finding that the subway conductor failed to comply with defendant’s rules and regulations requiring a conductor to look *309to the front and the back of the train while the doors are open, before signaling the motorman to proceed, and as the train begins to exit the station, and thus negligently failed to observe plaintiff, who had bent down beside the stopped train to retrieve a book she had dropped while exiting the train (see Jackson v New York City Tr. Auth., 227 AD2d 181 [1996]). When the train struck plaintiff in the head as it…