Case Name: SPRAGUE v. CITY OF ROCHESTER
Court: New York Supreme Court, General Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-06-21
Citations: 34 N.Y.S. 1126
Docket Number: 
Parties: SPRAGUE v. CITY OF ROCHESTER.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 34
Pages: 1126–1128

Head Matter:
SPRAGUE v. CITY OF ROCHESTER.
(Supreme Court, General Term, Fifth Department.
June 21, 1895.)
Municipal Corporations—Defective Sidewalk—Notice to City.
Under a city charter providing that the city shall not be liable for any injuries caused by a defective sidewalk unless actual notice of the défect has been given to the city officers in charge of the highways a reasonable time before the injury, notice to the chief inspector of sidewalks and repairs, who is a subordinate of the superintendent of streets, the officer in whose charge the streets are put by the charter, is not notice to the city. Ward, J., dissenting, on the ground that there was at the time no street superintendent, but that the duties were performed by trie chief inspector of sidewalks and repairs, and that the charter recognized the right to delegate the charge of highways to inferior officers.
Action by Fannie Sprague against the city of Rochester for personal injuries. A nonsuit was granted at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, and plaintiff moves for a new trial on exceptions ordered to be heard at general term in the first instance.
Denied.
Argued before DWIGHT, P. J., and LEWIS, BRADLEY, and WARD, JJ.
John Van Voorhis, for plaintiff.
A. J. Rodenbeck, City Atty., for defendant.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Motion for new trial denied, upon authority of Smith v. City of Rochester, 79 Hun, 174, 29 N. Y. Supp. 539.