Wells v. City of Brooklyn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jane Wells, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 10th day of March, 1896; upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Kings, and also from an order entered in said cleric’s office on the 5th day of March, 1896, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The plaintiff, a married woman, then seventy years of age, was severely and permanently injured on the'13tli day of December, 1894, while lawfully upon Grand street, in the city of Brooklyn, by the fall of- a large show case of wood and glass, which had stood near the curb line of the sidewalk in front of the premises No.- 691 Grand street for several years prior to the time of the accident.
■ There was an awning post, near this show case, to which it had been fastened by means of an iron brace. On December 12, 1894, a truck collided with the show case, knocking it over…
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