Legal Opinion
Melendez v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 26, 1993PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lewis R. Fried*461man, J.), entered November 8, 1991, which, after a jury trial, awarded plaintiff Orlando Melendez a total of $469,624.28, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, the judgment vacated, and the matter remanded for a new trial, without costs or disbursements.
On August 3, 1984, plaintiff, then 16, allegedly fell and broke a toe on a stairway at a subway station operated by defendant New York City Transit Authority. The only witness to such fall was his best friend, a young man named Brodie. Photographs were admitted to show the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Karten v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
- Shufelt v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1981
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