Legal Opinion
Bernardine v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 19, 1945PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLoughran, J.
In this negligence action against the- City of New York damages are demanded for personal injuries caused to the plaintiff by a runaway police horse. The parties waived a jury and the making of formal findings and introduced their respective proofs under a stipulation which empowered the trial court to grant “ such decision as may be warranted by the facts.”
Section 50-b of the General Municipal Law was invoked by the plaintiff. The substance thereof is, a declaration of municipal liability for negligence of employees ‘ ‘ in the operation of a municipally owned vehicle or other facility of…
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