Corcoran v. . City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 26, 1906, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 26, 1906, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term. Shortly after midnight of October 6, 1904, an automobile containing plaintiff’s intestate and eight other persons crashed through a fence which extended across the westerly end of Jerome avenue in the city of New York, falling over a sheer declivity to a depth of between twenty and thirty feet just beyond the fence, and landing on the tracks of the New…
1Opinion of the CourtWerner, J.
Jerome avenue is one of the public streets in the city of New York. Its general direction is north and south, but as it approaches the Harlem river from the north it turns westerly and ends abruptly at the New York Central Railroad Company’s tracks which, at this point,- border on the Harlem river at a level of from twenty to thirty feet below the surface of the adjacent streets. Prior to 1895 the old McComb’s dam bridge formed a continuation of Jerome avenue and connected it with the island of Manhattan on the south side of the Harlem. At some time in that year the old bridge was removed,…
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