Case Name: Sompoach Umpornpun et al., Respondents, v. CFR Leasing Corp. et al., Respondents, and City of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-12-29
Citations: 210 A.D.2d 189
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sompoach Umpornpun et al., Respondents, v CFR Leasing Corp. et al., Respondents, and City of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 210
Pages: 189–190

Head Matter:
Sompoach Umpornpun et al., Respondents, v CFR Leasing Corp. et al., Respondents, and City of New York, Appellant.
[621 NYS2d 27]

Opinion:
—Interlocutory judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane Solomon, J.), entered December 20, 1993, after bifurcated jury trial, apportioning liability 15% to plaintiff, 60% to defendant-appellant City of New York and 25% to defendants-respondents, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The record supports the jury finding that the City's failure to repair a traffic signal normally in operation at the intersection in question caused a dangerous situation because of potential confusion as to which of two vehicles entering this busy intersection would have the right of way, and was a contributing proximate cause of the nighttime accident in which plaintiff was injured (cf., Sherman v City of New York, 206 AD2d 272; Cimino v City of New York, 54 AD2d 843, affd 43 NY2d 966). Concur—Ellerin, J. R, Wallach, Asch and Nardelli, JJ.