Trimble v. State

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a decision of the Court of Claims dismissing a claim against the State for damages on account of the alleged negligence resulting in the death of claimant’s intestate.

Claimant’s intestate at the time of the injury resulting in her death was sitting on a log about fifteen or twenty feet from the base of a nearly perpendicular cliff in Stony Park Glen, a State park under the jurisdiction of the Finger Lakes Park Commission. She was injured by some unidentified sharp hard object which caused a deep wound in her back, fracturing her vertebrae. The…