Mullins v. Siegel-Cooper Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Siegel-Cooper Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 16th day of October; 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $1,100, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of November, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
Injured as the result of a fall due to her tripping over a flagstone in the sidewalk, raised two or three inches above the level of the adjacent surface, in front of defendant’s premises, the plaintiff has maintained her action for defendant’s negligence, and defends on this appeal the judgment and order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial. Sometime after the defendant built its stables upon the premises in question, it let a contract for the building of a stone wall near the rear of its lot in West New Brighton, in the borough of Richmond, city of New York, and to…
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- Deming v. . Terminal Railway of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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