Reiss v. City of New York

The action was brought by the infant plaintiff, by his guardian ad litem, to recover damages for personal injuries which he sustained as the result of his hand being run over by a passing truck of the city of New York operated by one of the city’s employees. At the time the infant plaintiff sustained his injuries he was five years of age. For a year he had attended school, and on the morning of the day in question, October 2, 1925, plaintiff had been taken to school by his mother and had returned to the apartment house on Delancey street, borough of Manhattan, in which he resided with his…