Legal Opinion
Ryan v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 22, 2011PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1006The injured plaintiff, Jennifer Ryan (hereinafter Ryan), alleges that she sustained injuries when a bus owned by the defendant, the New York City Transit Authority, and driven by nonparty Richard Essner, ran over her legs. At the trial of this action, Essner testified that he began to drive the bus forward near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 86th Street in Brooklyn to occupy a space that had just been vacated by another bus. The bus, which had not yet taken on any passengers, was parallel to the curb and less than a foot from it. Ryan ran across the sidewalk toward the side of Essner’s…
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