O'Brien 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 New York on the 12th day of July, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $800, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 14th day of July, 1917, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
At about half-past seven o’clock on the evening of November 8, 1912, the plaintiff, who resided at No. 62 East One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, was walking westerly quite fast on the northerly sidewalk of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street accompanied by a friend, an elderly woman who resided on One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, on whom she had called and with whom she had been shopping on Third avenue, and while crossing Lexington avenue, in stepping from the carriageway of the avenue to the curb at the northwesterly corner of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, she…
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