Coneys v. City of New York

In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., plaintiffs appeal from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered April 29, 1974, as was in favor of the respondent City of New York, upon a jury verdict. Judgment reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, and, as between plaintiffs and respondent, action severed and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. No questions of fact have been considered. The infant plaintiff, who was then six years of age, caught her foot in a hole in the sidewalk of a certain boulevard in Queens, New York,…