Legal Opinion
Brown v. . German Rock Asphalt Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 13, 1923PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrane, J.
Grace Brown and Frank Brown, her husband, brought action against the German Rock Asphalt Company, Inc., to recover damages for personal injuries received by the wife in falling into a hole as she was alighting from a car of the International Railway Company on Elmwood avenue in the city of Buffalo. This hole was alongside and underneath the step of the car from which she alighted. The car had stopped for the purpose of discharging passengers at this place which was near the corner of West Utica street.
The defendant, the German Rock Asphalt Company, Inc., had opened a trench about two feet…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Allen v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1897
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