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Ruiz v. the City of N.Y

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 6, 2001
289 A.D.2d 42 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)

Opinion

5510

December 6, 2001.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Huff, J.), entered January 12, 2000, which denied plaintiff's motion to set aside the jury verdict in defendant's favor, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Rubin, Buckley, Friedman, JJ.


The motion was properly denied. The trial evidence, fairly considered, permitted the jury to conclude that plaintiff had not fallen in a hole in the City-owned sidewalk, but rather that her injuries were caused when she fell on ice. The issue of whether plaintiff credibly testified at trial that she had fallen in a sidewalk hole, when she had testified at her deposition four years earlier that she had fallen on ice, was the jury's prerogative to resolve as it evidently did (see, Mazariegos v. New York City Tr. Auth., 230 A.D.2d 608). Moreover, the issue of whether the Big Apple map relied upon by plaintiff gave notice of the particular hazard alleged, was properly submitted to the jury, since the map indicated no fewer than 14 defects at the site of plaintiff's accident (see, Johnson v. City of New York, 280 A.D.2d 271), and the jury could fairly have resolved this dispositive issue in defendant's favor as well.

We have reviewed plaintiff's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

Ruiz v. the City of N.Y

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 6, 2001
289 A.D.2d 42 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
Case details for

Ruiz v. the City of N.Y

Case Details

Full title:OLIVA RUIZ, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, TANIA M. PAGAN v. THE CITY OF NEW YORK…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Dec 6, 2001

Citations

289 A.D.2d 42 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
734 N.Y.S.2d 35

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