Van Pelt v. City of New York

The plaintiff sued the City of New York and Raymond W. Seebode to recover damages for personal injuries which he claims to have suffered as a result of a fall on the sidewalk. The first cause of action charges the city with negligence in that it permitted its sidewalk in front of the premises owned by the defendant Seebode “ to become and remain in a broken, defective, unsafe, dilapidated, jagged and irregular condition, and in failing to make proper repairs to said sidewalk after *997* * notice * * The second cause of action charges the defendant, Seebode, with having undertaken, prior to…