Shyatt v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Shyatt v. City of New York

258 A.D. 883, 17 N.Y.S.2d 222, 1939 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7437

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided December 18, 1939·Published·Cited by 1 cases

Opinion

Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Present — Martin, P. J., O’Malley, Townley, Dore and Cohn, JJ.; O’Malley, J., dissents and votes to reverse and grant a new trial on the ground that the plaintiffs established prima facie negligence on the part of the defendant; and upon the further ground that the trial court erred in excluding evidence offered by the plaintiffs to show that the defendant in attempting to remedy the conditions shoveled snow from the center of the streets onto the crosswalks where it was left to be trodden down by pedestrians, thereby accentuating the dangerous condition of the crosswalks.

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Judgment affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Present — Martin, P. J., O’Malley, Townley, Dore and Cohn, JJ.; O’Malley, J., dissents and votes to reverse and grant a new trial on the ground that the plaintiffs established prima facie negligence on the part of the defendant; and upon the further ground that the trial court erred in excluding evidence offered by the plaintiffs to show that the defendant in attempting to remedy the conditions shoveled snow from the center of the streets onto the crosswalks where it was left to be trodden down by pedestrians, thereby accentuating the dangerous condition of the crosswalks.

Shyatt v. City of New York, 258 A.D. 883, 17 N.Y.S.2d 222, 1939 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7437 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1939).

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