Legal Opinion
Jenkins v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided April 23, 1983PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Frank S. Rossetti, J.
The instant motion is for permission to file a claim out of time. It arises from the erroneous notification by a State mental hospital of the “death” of George Jenkins, the son of claimants Marion and Agnes Jenkins and the brother of the other claimants. The damages claimed include not only the personal suffering of each claimant, but also funeral and other expenses incurred in shipping the body (of another man as it turned out) to the said mother’s home in Louisiana. The proposed claim is grounded in negligence and accrued at the earliest on February…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- Johnson v. State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- Monahan v. WeichertAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1981
- Bay Terrace Cooperative Section IV, Inc. v. New York State Employees' Retirement System Policemen's & Firemen's Retirement SystemNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Cole v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1978
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Fusco v. General Motors Corp., New York County Courts1984
- Johnson v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1986
- Shimmerlik v. City University of New YorkNew York Court of Claims · 1988