Silverstein v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (James R. Cowhey, J.), entered on or about October 10, 1989, upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendants, dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, a 79-year-old woman who was blind in one eye and partially blind in the other and who was somewhat unstable due to osteomyelitis in her left leg, was allegedly caused to fall in a pedestrian crosswalk when the shopping cart which she was pushing in front of her was allegedly struck by a bus owned and operated by the defendants. We have reviewed the record and conclude that the…