Henry 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 6th day of July* 1906, upon the verdict of a -jury for $7,250, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of July, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new'trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The plaintiff has recovered a verdict for the damages suffered by her in consequence of having stepped into a hole in the pavement on the easterly side of Broadway between Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets in the city of New York.
At that time the street was in great confusion. Broadway was excavated from curb to curb for the construction of the subway, and at this point the excavation extended several feet inside the curb line so that one line of flag stones had been removed and the . sidewalk partly excavated, a board fence having been erected between the excavation and .…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Beltz v. . City of YonkersNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Butler v. . Village of OxfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Getzoff v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Walsh v. Central New York Telephone & Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
- McDonald v. Holbrook, Cabot & Daly Contracting Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Quinn ex rel. Quinn v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911
- Maloney v. Bradley Contracting Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1914
- McHugh v. Consolidated Gas Light Co.City of New York Municipal Court · 1914
- Quirk v. Bradley Contracting Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1916