Legal Opinion
Rivero v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 15, 1943PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLoughran, J.
Plaintiffs sued the City of New York to recover damages for personal injuries and for consequent medical and other expenses alleged to have been caused by its negligence. At the close of the entire case, the complaint was dismissed. The Appellate Division affirmed. We gave the plaintiffs leave to bring this appeal.
By appropriate proceedings taken in 1929, the city closed Twelfth Avenue in the Borough of Manhattan from the north side of Fifty-ninth Street to the south side of Seventy-second Street. This space was then conveyed to the New York Central Railroad Company, subject to the right of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Schwartz v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
- Jewhurst v. . City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Corcoran v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Ireland v. . Oswego, Hannibal and Sterling Plank Road Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1856
- White v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
3Cited by14 opinions
- O'Brien v. City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Brown v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 2000
- Leone v. City of UticaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1979
- Widger v. CENT. SCH. DIST. NO. 1 OF THE TOWNS OF ELLICOTTVILLENew York Court of Appeals · 1966
- Powell v. Town of GatesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1971
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