Robert Taylor, an Infant v. the City of Yonkers, Appellant

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals reversed the judgment for the plaintiff, holding that the City of Yonkers was not liable because the plaintiff failed to show that the sidewalk slope was a necessary cause of his fall, and that the municipality is not negligent for awaiting a reasonable time for citizens to clean sidewalks or for ice formed by natural conditions. The court affirmed the principle that municipal liability requires the defect to be the proximate cause without which the injury would not have occurred.