SKETCHES OF COURT: Jury finds defective condition not attributable to defendants
In this courtroom sketch Hon. Kathy King listens as defendant’s attorney Richard Koehler (standing), of the law firm Hammill, O’Brien, Croutier, Dempsey, Pender & Koehler, addresses the jury during his closing remarks in the slip-and-fall trial Jamison-Cox v. Brooklyn Union Gas, et. al. At issue was the determination of liability.
Janet Jamison-Cox headed out of her apartment in June 2010 to report to her early morning shift with the Transit Authority. While crossing Waverly Avenue toward where she had parked her car, Jamison-Cox claims that she tripped on a hole in the roadway in the 3:30 a.m. darkness and was seriously injured.
Steven Beldock (right), trial counsel to the law offices of Bruce S. Reznick, Esq., maintained that the hole was created when the defendants failed to properly restore the roadway to a safe condition after working on gas lines in that location. Beldock called on two witnesses for the plaintiff and who testified to having observed the performance of roadway work by Keyspan in that location.
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