Sheff v. County of Westchester

In a proceeding pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5) for leave to serve a late notice of claim, the County of West-*633Chester appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Barone, J.), entered November 16, 1999, which granted the petition.

Ordered that the order is reversed, as a matter of discretion, with costs, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.

On May 6, 1999, the respondent Sammie Sheff, an inmate at the Westchester County Jail, was burned with scalding water he was using to clean a floor. Over five months later, Sheff commenced this proceeding…