Williams v. Suffolk County Sheriff's Department

The plaintiff alleged that, on July 29, 2003, when he was an inmate at the Suffolk County Riverhead Correctional Facility, he fell down an elevator shaft on the premises and was injured. The plaintiff served a notice of claim dated September 12, 2003, and a hearing pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-h was conducted on November 12, 2003. Thereafter, the plaintiff commenced this action against the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department and the County of Suffolk (hereinafter together the county defendants) and two elevator companies, Island Elevator Company and Brink Elevator Corp., that had…