New York Court of Common Pleas December 15, 1883 (Ergholt v. The Mayor)

J. F. Daly, J.

The mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York should not be held liable for the injuries sustained by the plaintiff in this case, because they were not guilty of negligence, the duty of keeping in repair the roads, étreets and avenues of the annexed district not having been imposed upon them, but exclusively upon the department of parks, without any control by the said