Lehman v. City of Brooklyn

By the Court, Brown, J.

This action was most indifferently and inefficiently tried, for the examinations failed to bring out the facts upon which its determination must ultimately depend.

The plaintiff is the administrator of George Lehman, deceased, and the action is for negligence, whereby the plaintiff’s intestate was deprived of his life, on the 5th May, 1856. It appeared by the proof, that at the time of the alleged death there was a well within the line and upon the sidewalk of Division avenue, in the city of Brooklyn. The mouth of the well being level with the grade of the sidewalk,…