Legal Opinion
Melendez v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 9, 2003PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alan Saks, J.), entered October 24, 2002, upon a jury verdict, which awarded plaintiff damages, unanimously reversed, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, the answer reinstated, and the matter remanded for a new trial. Appeal from judgment, same court (Stanley Green, J.), entered July 6, 2001, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as superseded by the appeal from the subsequent judgment.
The trial court’s striking of defendant’s answer and finding it negligent as a matter of law for not repairing a broken step, imposed as a sanction…
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