Dirrane v. City of New York

Martin, J..

The plaintiff, on November 17, 1929, was injured while riding in a taxicab. Wishing to return home after a visit to a friend and finding it raining, she called a taxicab to take her to the nearest subway station, which was at the corner of One Hundred and Seventieth street and Jerome avenue. On the way *369there the driver crossed the Grand Concourse where the defendant, appellant, was constructing part of the New York city subway system, under a contract with the city of New York. The taxicab was traveling in a westerly direction on One Hundred and Seventy-first street across the…