Legal Opinion
Finn v. City of New York
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided July 14, 1972PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJoseph P. Sullivan, J.
On August 31, 1967, Joseph Patrick Finn, a man of temperance and regular habits, failed to return home from work at 6:30 p.m., as was his custom. Thus began for Catherine Finn, his wife, the plaintiff herein, a travail which was to continue unabated for eight days until Mr. Finn’s body *948was discovered at the Jacobi Hospital morgue by the Missing Persons Bureau of the New York City Police Department.
The facts are not in dispute. On his way home from work on that fateful evening, August 31, 1967, Mr. Finn collapsed on a subway station. Taken by ambulance to Fordham Hospital with a Transit…
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