Dunstan v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, o.ne City of Few York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Few York on the 6th day of August, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,845.24, with interest, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 1st day of July, 1903, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made Upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The recovery is for damages to plaintiff’s candied fruits, which were in the cellar of premises occupied by him at Fb. 143 Chambers street in the city of Few York, caused by -flooding from a break in a T or branch connecting a twelve-foot main in the middle of Chambers street with a hydrant in front of neighboring premises. On the 14th day of Fovember, 1901, the defendant Gerken applied for *356and obtained a permit, from the superintendent of street openings, paving and repaving, to construct a vault in front of premises situate at the- northwest corner of Chambers and Hudson-…
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