Pytel v. New Jersey Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beverly Cohen, J.), entered on or about October 6, 1998, inter alia, granting defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The record supports the court’s finding that the adult plaintiffs conduct in becoming intoxicated, ignoring “no trespassing” signs, jumping four or five feet from the train platform to enter a darkened recess under the platform, and going to sleep there, approximately one foot away from railroad tracks that plaintiff believed to be active, was so reckless as to constitute the…
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