Trabisco v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Trabisco v. City of New York

259 A.D. 751, 18 N.Y.S.2d 641, 1940 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6532

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided March 26, 1940·Published

Opinion

Action for damages for personal injuries suffered by five plaintiffs, and for damages for wrongful death of the decedent of one plaintiff, as a consequence of the collision of an automobile, in which the decedent and the five plaintiffs were passengers, with a pole erected and maintained by defendant Staten Island Edison Company near the paved and traveled portion of a part of Forest Hill Road, Staten Island; and also against the defendant City of New York by reason of the claimed maintenance by it of a dangerous road condition in relation to said pole. Judgment for the plaintiffs reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The verdicts are against the weight of credible evidence in so far as they rest upon a finding that the automobile in which the plaintiffs were riding was forced off the road by an on-coming car traveling in a direction opposite to the plaintiffs’ ear. Lazansky, P. J., Hagarty, Carswell, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur.

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Action for damages for personal injuries suffered by five plaintiffs, and for damages for wrongful death of the decedent of one plaintiff, as a consequence of the collision of an automobile, in which the decedent and the five plaintiffs were passengers, with a pole erected and maintained by defendant Staten Island Edison Company near the paved and traveled portion of a part of Forest Hill Road, Staten Island; and also against the defendant City of New York by reason of the claimed maintenance by it of a dangerous road condition in relation to said pole. Judgment for the plaintiffs reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. The verdicts are against the weight of credible evidence in so far as they rest upon a finding that the automobile in which the plaintiffs were riding was forced off the road by an on-coming car traveling in a direction opposite to the plaintiffs’ ear. Lazansky, P. J., Hagarty, Carswell, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur.

Trabisco v. City of New York, 259 A.D. 751, 18 N.Y.S.2d 641, 1940 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6532 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1940).

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