Hofstein v. Bronx Water Works, Inc.

Plaintiff was injured when an automobile driven by her son, and in which she was a passenger, was struck by a second automobile at a street intersection. Neither of the operators of the cars involved is a defendant herein. The basis of liability asserted against the present defendants, and sustained by the judgment against them, is that Bronx Water Works, Inc., while engaged as a contractor for the city of New York in excavating a plot alongside the highway near the intersection in question, allowed sand and gravel to fall upon the asphalt pavement. Plaintiff claims that the presence of such…