Legal Opinion
Whitfield v. Town of Oyster Bay
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 25, 1996PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The court improperly denied the Town’s motion for summary judgment. "The purpose of the statutory notice of claim is to afford the municipality an adequate opportunity to investigate the circumstances surrounding an accident and explore the merits of the claim while the information is likely to be still available” (DiMenna v Long Is. Light. Co., 209 AD2d 373, 374; see, Altmayer v City of New York, 149 AD2d 638, 639; Caselli v City of New York, 105 AD2d 251). The notice of claim in the instant case failed to identify the site of the accident *764with sufficient particularity. As a consequence, the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Caselli v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
- D'Alessandro v. New York City Transit AuthorityNew York Court of Appeals · 1994
- Altmayer v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
- Martire v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
- Cappadonna v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- Walston v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- Shpak v. New York City Transit AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Coney Island Exhaust, Inc. v. Adriana Realty Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- Lauro v. County of NassauAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004