Palmer v. New York City Transit Authority

This appeal is from Special Term’s grant of permission to plaintiff administratrix to add to a complaint for personal injuries a second cause of action for wrongful death of the intestate. The only difficulty we apprehend is that the motion was not made until the case had been assigned for trial.

When this young decedent came to his tragic death in 1967, he was a mental patient, having been in and out of several State hospitals, and addicted to barbiturates, marijuana, and *120alcohol. The papers submitted in support of the motion depict, in his sister’s affidavit, the steady march of his…