RUNKEL v. CITY OF NEW YORK


282 A.D. 173 (1953)

James Runkel, an Infant, by Lillian Runkel, His Guardian ad Litem, et al., Appellants, v. City of New York et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred S. Julien and Abraham Yesnowitz for appellants.

Denis M. Hurley, Corporation Counsel (Samuel D. Johnson and Seymour B. Quel of counsel), for City of New York, respondent.

George S. Pickwick for Tinnie Venetek and another, respondents.

CARSWELL, Acting P. J., MACCRATE, SCHMIDT and BELDOCK, JJ., concur; ADEL, J., dissents and votes to affirm.


Per Curiam.

In a consolidated action of separate suits against the individual defendants and the City of New York, the infant plaintiffs sue to recover for personal injuries sustained when an abandoned three-story multiple dwelling, adjacent to a public street and bordering upon it, collapsed to the ground floor and buried them in the debris. The parents sue to recover for expenses and for loss of services of the infants...

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