Legal Opinion
Baez v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 14, 2000PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered July 24, 1998, which, upon defendant’s motion at the conclusion of plaintiffs’ case, dismissed the complaint, affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff alleges that he fell and was injured at the corner of Murray Street and Broadway. Although he originally claimed that the accident was caused by a jagged piece of protruding metal, at trial he sought to show that his fall resulted from the excessive slope of the pedestrian ramp. This, it was asserted, was a condition of which defendant was aware.
The trial court properly dismissed the…
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