Campion v. Rollwagen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Margaret Campion, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of January, 1899, denying her motion to set aside the verdict of a jury and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The action is brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff who stepped into a. coal hole in front of a building owned by the defendant and received serious injuries. The allegations of the complaint were, substantially, that the defendant was the owner of certain premises on the corner of Lexington avenue and. Eighty-fourth street in the city of New York ; that he had maintained in the cellar of the premises a place for the reception and storage of coal, and that said place was under or adjacent to the sidewalk, on Lexington avenue ; that'the defendant had kept two certain…
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