Case ID: ny-super-ct_52/html/0562-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Matthew Farley, appellant, v. The Mayor, &c. of N. Y., respondents.
    Decided June 19, 1885.
    Appeal by plaintiff from judgment for defendants entered upon a direction at trial term that complaint be dismissed, and also from order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
    The action was for damages from the alleged negligence of the defendants, in allowing to remain over a coal-hole in a public street, an iron cover, which was alleged to be unsafe for the use of foot-passengers, in walking over it. The plaintiff slipped upon it and fell.
    Edward D. McCarthy, for appellant. David J. Dean, for respondents.
   Opinions by Sedgwick, Ch. J., and Freedman, J.

Judgment and order affirmed.