McGaffin v. . City of Cohoes
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. (Eeported below, 11 Hun, 357.) This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant in not keeping the side-walk upon one of the streets in repair. The action was not commenced until more than one year after the accident.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee. (Eeported below, 11 Hun, 357.) This action was brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant in not keeping the side-walk upon one of the streets in repair. The action was not commenced until more than one year after the accident. The defendant pleaded as a bar the provision of the charter of said city (§ 5, title 13, chap. 912, Laws of 1869), which provides, that…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
This action is claimed to be barred by the limitation of one year prescribed in the charter of the defendant. (Laws of 1869, p. 2383.) The last clause of section 5 of title 13 of the charter reads as follows : “ And no action against the city on a contract obligation or liability express or implied, shall be commenced except within one year after the cause of action shall have accrued.”
The word “liability” standing by itself in a literal comprehensive sense would include the cause of action involved in this case, which is an action for damages resulting from negligence in not…
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