Klepper v. Seymour House Corp. of Ogdensburg, Inc.

On January 15, 1923, the plaintiff, a young woman twenty-nine years of age, was walking with her two children on the sidewalk of State street, a public highway, in the city of Ogdensburg. She was in front of a building known as the Seymour House, owned by the defendant, the Seymour House Corporation. While thus proceeding, a mass of ice and snow, weighing about 150 pounds, fell upon her from the roof of the Seymour House, inflicting serious and permanent injuries. The judgment which she recovered at Trial Term against the owner of the Seymour House and the city of Ogdensburg has been reversed…