Hawkins v. Mayor of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Rosanna Hawkins, 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 3d day of March, 1900, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial before the court and a jury at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of April, 1900, dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries sustained under the following circumstances: On the 25th of December, 1896, she was walking on the sidewalk on Columbus avenue, between Seventieth and Seventy-first streets in the city'of New York. She slipped upon frozen snow which had accumulated on the sidewalk; and she alleged in her complaint that the accident was *259caused by reason of “ the carelessness, negligence and wrongful omission of the defendant, its agents and servants, and by reason of its and their carelessly and negligently permitting and suffering the…
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- Taylor v. . City of YonkersNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Pomfrey v. . Village of Saratoga SpringsNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Harrington v. . City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Requa v. . the City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Kaveny v. . the City of TroyNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
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