Chemotti v. State

The claimants above named were given

awards by this court, in a decision filed December 8, 1948, for damages resulting from the negligence of the State of New York in the operation and maintenance of the gates of a dam at Caughdenoy in the year 1945. On February 21, 1949, the State made application to reopen the trials of these claims for the submission of further evidence in the form of a release executed by the claimants’ predecessors in title. By stipulation the trials were so reopened, and the release in question was received in evidence. On the strength thereof, the State seeks reversal…