Windhurst v. Town of Thompson

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered March 6, 1980 in Sullivan County, which denied defendant County of Sullivan’s motion for a change of venue and granted plaintiff’s cross motion. Plaintiff is a paraplegic as a direct consequence of a motor vehicle accident that occurred in the Town of Thompson, Sullivan County. This action, alleging the municipalities negligently, carelessly and *931recklessly created an unsafe highway condition, was commenced in Westchester County where plaintiff presently resides in a rehabilitation hospital. The defendant County of Sullivan…