BARKSDALE v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY


273 A.D.2d 43 (2000)

709 N.Y.S.2d 531

RUBY BARKSDALE et al., Appellants, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Respondent.

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

Decided June 8, 2000.


Plaintiff's decedent died when she fell from a moving subway train in an attempt to change cars. Plaintiff alleged in her Notice of Claim to the New York City Transit Authority, dated September 4, 1990, that her decedent's death was caused by the Authority's negligence, which consisted of: "failing to properly maintain the guard chains b[e]tween trains, the railings between trains and properly safeguard the passengers so that when...

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