SANTIAGO v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY


271 A.D.2d 675 (2000)

706 N.Y.S.2d 721

JUAN SANTIAGO, Respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Appellant.

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

Decided April 24, 2000.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is granted, with costs to abide the event.

The plaintiff suffered a traumatic amputation of his legs when he was struck by a subway train in the Prospect Avenue station in Brooklyn. He subsequently commenced this action against the New York City Transit Authority. According to the testimony at trial, the plaintiff, who suffered from, inter alia, depression, was lying on his back in a trough...

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