Scofield v. Town of Poughkeepsie
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Town of Poughkeepsie, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 1st-day of February, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,000, and also from an. order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of March, 1906,. denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. ■ •
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff alleges as his cause of action that he was injured in ornear the Casper Creek bridge, on the New'York and Albany post road, in the town of Poughkeepsie, on the 15th day of July, 1904, while driving south from'Poughkeepsie, such injuries being caused by the defective and narrow condition of the highway and bridge in such place and the unsafe, negligent and improper manner in which the said highway was permitted to be,.remain and exist, *869and the narrowness of its position in that location, caused by obstructions allowed to be and remain in the" highway and bridge,…
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