Legal Opinion
Walden v. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 30, 1986PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Yesawich, Jr., J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Conway, J.), entered April 2, 1985 in Rensselaer County, which granted plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss a counterclaim in the amended answer for failure to state a cause of action.
In this action sounding in negligence and nuisance, the complaint alleges that the infant plaintiff sustained personal injuries when she fell on some broken glass while walking on land owned by defendant which abuts plaintiffs’ premises. Plaintiffs, the infant and her father, derivatively, allege that defendant let glass and other debris…
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