Plaintiff sustained a fractured ankle when he was accidentally bumped on the sidewalk in front of the defendant restaurant, which caused him to lose his balance and fall down a staircase leading to the basement of the building owned by defendant-appellant. The jury found for the plaintiff against the defendant-appellant landlord, but in favor of the restaurant. It is axiomatic, as stated in Palsgraf v. Long Island R. R. Co. (248 N.Y. 339, 344), that the "risk reasonably...
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