In this appeal, defendant-appellant the New York City Transit Authority (the Transit Authority) seeks to have this Court reevaluate the common carrier doctrine expounded in Stewart v Brooklyn & Crosstown R. R. Co. (90 N.Y. 588 [1882]), and to find the doctrine no longer applicable and contrary to the tenor of modern tort law.
On June 28, 1986, at approximately 2:00 P.M. on a Saturday...
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