Carr v. City of New York

The plaintiff slipped and fell in the street on a pavement sixty feet from a street intersection and three or four feet from the curb at a point used as a terminal by a bus corporation. At the point in question buses stopped two or three times an hour for from five to eight minutes each time. The constant use of the area as a terminal resulted in an accumulation of oil and grease along the roadway varying up to one-half inch in thickness and covering a space two or three feet wide and about one hundred feet long. At the point where the plaintiff fell the oil was one-half inch deep. It was not…