MARTINEZ v. CITY OF NEW YORK


224 A.D.2d 242 (1996)

637 N.Y.S.2d 706

Margarita Martinez, Appellant, v. City of New York, Respondent, et al., Defendants

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

February 8, 1996


Plaintiff brought this action for injuries suffered when she tripped and fell on a protruding manhole cover. When the case was not settled at a pretrial conference, the court at the Trial Assignment Part directed the parties to select a jury and directed counsel to give their opening statements.

In his opening, plaintiff's counsel told the jury that the plaintiff intended to prove through expert testimony that the raised manhole cover had been that way since the manhole...

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