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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward J. Dillon, Appellant, v. The City of New York, Respondent.
    
      Dillon v. City of New York, 173 App. Div. 969, affirmed.
    (Argued April 24, 1919;
    decided May 20, 1919.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the. Appellate Division of the' Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 12, 1916, affirming a judgment in favor •of defendant entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court at a Trial Term in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff through the negligence of defendant in failing to maintain its sidewalk upon the northerly side of East One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street, near the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, in the borough of The Bronx, in a safe condition. It is alleged that the sidewalk was upon a steep incline, with an irregular and uneven surface, and that on January 22,1911, plaintiff “ stumbled and slipped and fell ” by reason of the condition of the sidewalk. Defendant’s answer denied the material allegations of the complaint.
    
      John T. Fenlon and John V. Judge for appellant.
    
      William P. Burr, Corporation Counsel (Terence Farley and Charles J. Nehrbas of counsel), for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.