Bay Ridge Air Rights, Inc. v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtLarkin, J.
The essential facts are not in dispute. The claimant is the owner of an apartment building in Brooklyn, New York. On July 2, 1972 a tenant in the building was murdered by a custodian in the employ of claimant. The custodian had once been a patient at the State operated *238Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital and at the time of the homicide was an outpatient at Brooklyn State Hospital. The administrator of the victim’s estate commenced an action in Federal court against the claimant upon the theory that he had negligently hired the custodian. Claimant’s third-party complaint, seeking to implead…
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