Legal Opinion

Christenson v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 3, 1969Published

1Opinion of the Court

—'Judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered January 31, 1968, reversed, on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The findings of fact below are not affirmed. In our opinion, evidence that plaintiff slipped on a general condition of ice in a crosswalk about 68 hours after the second largest recorded snowfall in the history of the City of New York was insufficient to present a jury question as .to whether defendant was negligent in failing to remove the accumulated ice (Staub v. City of New York, 295 N. Y. 612; Kirsch v. City of New York, 289 N. Y. 684;…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Ring v. . City of CohoesNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
  2. Taylor v. . City of YonkersNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  3. Williams v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
  4. Foley v. State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1945
  5. Dupont v. . Village of Port ChesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1912

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