Hooks v. City of Utica

Full title: Thomas J. Hooks, Respondent, v. The City of Utica, Appellant

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

Date published: May 1, 1911

145 App. Div. 902 (N.Y. App. Div. 1911)

129 N.Y.S. 1128

Opinion

May, 1911.

Judgment and order reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event. Held, that the evidence does not establish that plaintiff's fall occurred because of any defect in or defective condition of defendant's sidewalk, and that the verdict is excessive in that plaintiff's disturbed mental condition was not shown by sufficient and competent evidence to be the result of his injury. All concurred.