Dumary v. Village of Athens

Appeal in the two above-entitled actions from judgments in favor of the respective plaintiffs, and from orders denying the defendant’s motions to set aside the verdicts and for new trials and denying the defendant’s motions for directed verdicts in its favor.

The actions were brought for damages arising out of the personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, Henrietta Dumary, when a difference of elevation of two flagstones in the sidewalk on Warren Street, village of Athens, Greene County, New York, caused her to turn her ankle and fall. The undisputed physical facts, as shown by the…