Miller v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of ¡New York,from a judgment, of the Supreme Court in favor o¡f the plaintiff and against the said defendant, entered in' the office of the clerk of the'county of Ein^s on the 12th day of March, 1904, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,500, and also from an order entered! in said clerk’s office on the ■29th day of March, 1904, denying the-isaid defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Barlett, J.:
In this action the plaintiff has recovered a verdict of $2,500 damages for injuries sustained by stepping into a hole in the paved roadway of a city street in the borough of Brooklyn, just after she had alighted from an electric car in the night time. It is argued that the hole was not of such a character as to make its permitted •existence negligence on the part of the municipality, under the authority of Hamilton v. City of Buffalo (173 N. Y. 72). In-that case it was held as. a matter of law .that a municipal corporation. ' - was .not chargeablé with negligence for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hamilton v. . City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
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