An injured pedestrian may sue a utility over injuries resulting from a nonworking street light, but only if the company can be shown to have had notice of the outage, an appeals court ruled in a pair of cases Thursday.
The same Appellate Division panel reinstated one suit based on a witness’s claim that she reported the light as not working before the accident, but upheld dismissal of the other for lack of notice.
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