Legal Opinion
People v. City of Binghamton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 21, 1956Published
1Per curiam
The State of New York as lessor of a veterans’ housing project of which the City of Binghamton was lessee, has been required to pay damages resulting from a fall and injury to Jennie H. Hawk on a sidewalk of the project (Hawk v. State of New York, 283 App. Div. 225, affd. 307 N. Y. 788). In this action to recover against the City of Binghamton the amount which the State has been required to pay in damages the State’s complaint has been dismissed at Special Term.
The ground for dismissal is that in the Hawk case it was determined that the State retained such actual control of the project and of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Compania Transatlantica EspanolaNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Thompson-Starrett Co. v. Otis Elevator Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1936
- Wischnie v. DorschNew York Court of Appeals · 1947
- Employers' Liability Assurance Corp., Ltd., of London v. Post & McCord, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1941
- Hawk v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1953
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