Weber v. City of New York

In an action to recover damages for personal injury sustained when the defendant Abruzzo, the owner and operator of a half ton pick-up truck, after having gasoline pumped into the gasoline tank of his vehicle in the gasoline service station located on the northwest corner of Marcy Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn, backed up his vehicle to proceed to another facility of the station and struck the plaintiff, a pedestrian on the sidewalk; and in which the jury after trial rendered a verdict in the sum of $75,000 as against all defendants; and in which the court, to whom the issues of the…