Mulligan v. City of New York

Plaintiff, the public administrator, sues the defendant city on two causes of action, one for the wrongful death of one Dines, the other for conscious pain and suffering of Dines before his death, resulting from a fire and collapse of a building allegedly attributable to defendant’s negligence. The required notice of claim under section 50-e of the General Municipal Law was not given within sixty days after the happening of the accident or within sixty days after the appointment of plaintiff as administrator of the estate of Dines, but was given pursuant to leave granted by Special Term upon…