Houston v. City of New York

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Polito, J.), entered May 2, 1997, which, after a jury trial, awarded plaintiffs $500,000 on a verdict finding defendants 50% liable for the $1,000,000 in damages found to have been sustained by plaintiffs, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

On December 8, 1990 at about 8 p.m., the injured plaintiff, a pedestrian staggering drunkenly against traffic across 8th Avenue in Manhattan, was struck by a radio motor patrol vehicle driven by Police Officer Vincent Rutelo near West…