Carole A. v. City of New York

In a negligence action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants the City of New York and the Board of Education of the City of New York appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lerner, J.), dated July 14, 1986, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of plaintiff and against them in the principal sum of $700,000.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is granted of the plaintiff’s claims against the appellants, with costs to abide the event.

During the course of a jury trial conducted in respect to the plaintiff’s claim that the…