Gaines v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, David Huyler Gaines, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8th day of November, 1912, reversing a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff and dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the evening of the 28th day of November, 1909, at about seven-thirty o’clock, the plaintiff’s automobile, which was being *790driven southerly on Gerard avenue by his chauffeur, collided with a granite block and steel girder of the middle truss of the bridge forming the roadway over the railroad tracks in the vicinity of East One Hundred and Fifty-first street, and this action is brought to recover the expenses of repairing the automobile.
The Appellate' Term reversed the judgment on the ground that, the Statute of Limitations was a bar to the action. (Gaines v. City of New York,…
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