Labriola v. City of New York

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Hansel McGee, J.), entered March 27, 1986, which set aside, as *506against the weight of the evidence, the jury’s verdict in plaintiff-appellant Vito Labriola’s favor on the issue of defendant-respondent New York City’s liability, and dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

On June 13, 1979, plaintiff-appellant Vito Labriola was at the annual feast of St. Anthony in The Bronx. A little before 10:30 p.m., he walked down a street on which there lay a long mat of fireworks. Police directed people in the street to get on…