Buckley v. City of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

Gabrielli, J.

Each of the cases involved in these appeals presents the question of whether the fellow-servant rule continues to apply in New York. In each case an employee of the City of New York, who was injured through the negligence of a coemployee, brought an action against the municipality. In Buckley v City of New York, a police officer was accidentally shot in the leg when a gun being loaded by a fellow officer discharged in the station house locker room; and in Lawrence v City of New York, a fire fighter was seriously injured when a fellow fire fighter threw a…