Cassel v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9th day of February, 1914, as resettled by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of February, 1914. The judgment was entered upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a special verdict had been received.
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Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9th day of February, 1914, as resettled by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of February, 1914. The judgment was entered upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a special verdict had been received. Also an appeal from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of February, 1914, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The plaintiff’s intestate, claiming to be the proprietor of a hotel and restaurant business conducted on premises at the southeasterly corner of Webster and Wendover avenues in the borough of The Bronx, New York, brought this action to recover damages caused by the obstruction of access to the premises through alleged unreasonable delay on the part of the *833city, its servants, agents and contractors in the period of time employed in constructing a sewer, known as the Storm Relief Tunnel sewer from the Webster avenue sewer, in front of the premises, and his administratrix, who was…
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