Case Name: Mart Scher and Samuel Scher, Appellants, v. The City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-03-30
Citations: 250 A.D. 788
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mart Scher and Samuel Scher, Appellants, v. The City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 250
Pages: 788–788

Head Matter:
Mart Scher and Samuel Scher, Appellants, v. The City of New York, Respondent.

Opinion:
On appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment for the defendant after a trial before the court without a jury in an action brought for personal injuries by a wife and for expenses and loss of services by her husband, judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs. It was for the trial court to weigh the evidence and determine credibility in deciding the controverted question as to the depth of a hole in a sidewalk, alleged to have caused the wife to fall and sustain injuries. Furthermore, the credible evidence established beyond question that there was no causal relation between the existence of the hole, whatever its depth or nature, and the fall and consequent injuries. A verdict for the plaintiffs, based upon their testimony as to such causal relation, could not have been permitted to stand. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Johnston, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ.