Galvano v. S. Klein, Inc.

Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff by reason of a fall upon an icy portion of a sidewalk or driveway. Judgment for plaintiff reversed on the law and the facts and a new trial granted, costs to abide the event. The theory of the plaintiff’s case was that he had fallen on an inch or an inch and a half layer of black ice, in existence for about a week, and which had been exposed by the removal of the snow, the falling of which ended eighteen horns before the accident. In the submission of the issue of fact to the jury it was not made clear in the charge of the…