· 2/23/1945
Lawler v. Merritt
Citations
- 269 A.D. 662
- 53 N.Y.S.2d 465
- 1945 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3132
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the plaintiff could not establish a hazardous condition on the basis of a burnt-out streetlight merely because the affected roadway “is large and at. times busy — -a condition which exists at many city intersections”
- determining that city owed no duty to pedestrian struck while crossing at a place where nearest streetlight was burned out
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