WITHERSPOON v. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY


7 A.D.3d 702 (2004)

777 N.Y.S.2d 507

ASIA WITHERSPOON, Appellant, v. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Respondent.

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

May 17, 2004.


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

On January 29, 2000, the plaintiff slipped and fell on ice while walking across an open courtyard on the defendant's campus. The plaintiff testified that she could have taken an alternate route along a pathway under an overhang. The plaintiff commenced this action against the defendant alleging that the defendant was negligent in maintaining the courtyard...

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