Santos v. City of New York

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Orlando, J.) entered September 6,1980, awarding damages in the amount of $50,000 against the City of New York, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs and without disbursements, and the case remanded for a new trial, with the ad damnum clause increased to $50,000. On April 19,1973, plaintiff, while in the course of his employment, was injured at or near the emergency entrance and main loading dock of Bellevue Hospital on East 26th Street in the Borough of *797Manhattan, when an oxygen cylinder being transported on a hand truck fell on…