MIRANDA v. CITY OF NEW YORK


256 A.D.2d 605 (1998)

683 N.Y.S.2d 129

CARMEN MIRANDA, Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Appellant.

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

Decided December 31, 1998.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is dismissed.

The plaintiff allegedly sustained injuries when she tripped and fell on a sidewalk on New Year's Day 1990. After a bifurcated trial, the jury found the defendant to be 53% at fault in the happening of the accident and the plaintiff to be 47% at fault. At the damages phase of the trial, the plaintiff testified that she visited a hospital emergency room two days after the...

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