Cox v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Cox v. City of New York

56 A.D.2d 643, 391 N.Y.S.2d 890, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10765

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedFebruary 28, 1977

StatusPublished

This text of 56 A.D.2d 643 (Cox v. City of New York) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Cox v. City of New York, 56 A.D.2d 643, 391 N.Y.S.2d 890, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10765 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1977).

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Opinion

In a wrongful death action, defendant Gabila & Sons Mfg., Inc., appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered May 26, 1976, as is against it and in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $180,000, upon a jury verdict. Judgment affirmed, insofar as appealed from, with costs. Considering the facts surrounding the accident, which occurred while the decedent was a passenger in the appellant’s truck, the trial court properly submitted the questions of appellant’s negligence and the decedent’s contributory negligence to the jury. The jury’s determination, in plaintiffs favor, was supported by the evidence adduced at trial. Assuming that the trial court’s refusal to charge that section 141 of the Traffic Regulations of the City of New York was applicable as between plaintiffs decedent and the appellant was error, it was not, under the circumstances of this case, sufficiently prejudicial to warrant a reversal. Shapiro, Acting P. J., Titone, Hawkins and O’Connor, JJ., concur.

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In a wrongful death action, defendant Gabila & Sons Mfg., Inc., appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered May 26, 1976, as is against it and in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $180,000, upon a jury verdict. Judgment affirmed, insofar as appealed from, with costs. Considering the facts surrounding the accident, which occurred while the decedent was a passenger in the appellant’s truck, the trial court properly submitted the questions of appellant’s negligence and the decedent’s contributory negligence to the jury. The jury’s determination, in plaintiffs favor, was supported by the evidence adduced at trial. Assuming that the trial court’s refusal to charge that section 141 of the Traffic Regulations of the City of New York was applicable as between plaintiffs decedent and the appellant was error, it was not, under the circumstances of this case, sufficiently prejudicial to warrant a reversal. Shapiro, Acting P. J., Titone, Hawkins and O’Connor, JJ., concur.

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56 A.D.2d 643, 391 N.Y.S.2d 890, 1977 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10765, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/cox-v-city-of-new-york-nyappdiv-1977.