6 Misc. 301
The Superior Court of New York City
Decided December 15, 1893
The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1893-12-15
demurrer to the complaint. The following is the opinion of the court below: “McAdam, J. Applying the maxim ‘ causa próxima nonremota spectatur] the plaintiff is without a cause of action against the defendant, unless the latter, as owner of a tenement, is liable to the plaintiff as her tenant because she slipped upon the ice on the walk or stoop of her house, and there is no such liability.
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Decided 1893-12-15
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¶1The judgment appealed from was entered in due conformity with the order sustaining the demurrer, and the notice of appeal does not ask for a review of the order. But independently of that the judgment is right upon the merits, *302and should be affirmed upon the opinion rendered by the learned judge below.
¶2Judgment affirmed, with costs.