Corson v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of December, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of December, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff was injured by falling upon a sidewalk in the borough of Brooklyn. The fall was occasioned by an inequality in the footway, caused by the difference in level of two pieces or sections of flagging. The sidewalk at the place of the accident was eighteen feet in width, and the inequality extended across the middle six or seven feet, producing a depression, the maximum depth of which, as appears by a measurement made by one of the plaintiff’s witnesses, was two and three-quarters inches. As indicated upon a photograph, with measurements attached, introduced in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Beltz v. . City of YonkersNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Fordham v. . Gouverneur VillageNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
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