Case Name: Theresa Sheedy, as Administratrix of the Estate of James Sheedy, Deceased, Appellant, v. The City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-05-20
Citations: 238 N.Y. 579
Docket Number: 
Parties: Theresa Sheedy, as Administratrix of the Estate of James Sheedy, Deceased, Appellant, v. The City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 579–580

Head Matter:
Theresa Sheedy, as Administratrix of the Estate of James Sheedy, Deceased, Appellant, v. The City of New York, Respondent.
Negligence — streets — municipal corporations — waiver — evidence — erroneous admission of evidence to establish waiver by comptroller of city of New York of right to examine plaintiff.
Sheedy v. City of New York, 202 App. Div. 760, affirmed.
(Argued April 16, 1924;
decided May 20, 1924.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered May 26, 1922, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and granting a new trial. The action was brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, who was killed on January 1, 1920, when the left front wheel of an automobile truck in which he was riding broke through the frozen surface of a large pool of water in Bush street, between Columbia and Hicks streets, Brooklyn, and dropped to the bottom of a depression beneath, pitching the intestate and one of the other men in the truck .to the surface of the street. The Appellate Division reversed upon the ground that it was error for the trial court to receive the testimony of the witnesses O’Toole and Abruzzo in regard to the alleged conversation with some person in the corporation counsel’s office unknown to them and whose voice they did not recognize or identify, in order to establish a -waiver by the comptroller of his right to an examination of plaintiff under section 149 of the charter of the city of New York.
George F. Hickey and Samuel D. Smoleff, for appellant.
George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (Charles J. Druhan and Joseph P. Reilly of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed and judgment absolute ordered against appellant on the stipulation, with costs in all courts; no opinion.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.