Robbins v. New York City Transit Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Tyler, J., and jury), entered August 10, 1983 in favor of the plaintiffs in a personal injury action in the sum of $2,206,556.11, representing a determination of gross damages in the sum of 4 million dollars as reduced by a jury finding of 45% fault on the part of the plaintiff, reversed, on the law, without costs, and the case is remanded for a new trial.

On October 7, 1977 at about 6 o’clock in the morning, the plaintiff, Willa Robbins, a young woman then employed as an exercise girl at Belmont Racetrack, sustained very severe injuries, including…