Blum v Cain (2007 NY Slip Op 02498)

Blum v Cain

2007 NY Slip Op 02498 [38 AD3d 701]

March 20, 2007

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

As corrected through Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Walter Blum, Appellant,
v
Irwin B. Cain et al., Defendants, and Town of Hempstead, Respondent.

—[*1] Carman, Callahan & Ingham, LLP, Farmingdale, N.Y. (Michael F. Ingham and James Carman of counsel), for appellant.

Rivkin Radler, LLP, Uniondale, N.Y. (Evan H. Krinick, Cheryl F. Korman, Harris J. Zakarin, Merril Biscone, and Melissa M. Murphy of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCarty, J.), entered September 28, 2005, which, upon a jury verdict on the issue of liability in favor of the defendant Town of Hempstead and against him, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The court's charge as a whole conveyed the applicable legal principles (see Manna v Don Diego, 261 AD2d 590, 591 [1999]; Williams v City of New York, 214 NY 259, 264 [1915]; Gonzalez v City of New York, 148 AD2d 668, 670 [1989]). Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Dillon and Carni, JJ., concur.