Ryan v. City of New York

Plaintiff sustained personal injuries on the morning of January 23, 1953, when she was pushed by an unidentified third person while going through a turnstile of the Van Cortlandt Park Subway station at 242nd Street and Broadway, Bronx. Upon a trial, a jury awarded plaintiff damages in the sum of $25,000. Upon stipulation, plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict to $17,500.. Plaintiff’s cause of action was predicated upon defendant’s claimed negligence in permitting large crowds of persons to congregate in and about its subway station and in failing to take precautions to restrain…