Grace v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Gerard M. Weisberg, J.

By an interlocutory judgment dated and entered on March *1548, 1990, the State of New York was found to be 50% responsible for claimants’ injuries which resulted from a two-car accident in the Borough of Manhattan. (See, Grace v State of New York, NYLJ, Mar. 1, 1990, at 24, col 5.)1 At the time of the collision, claimant John Grace was in a State-owned vehicle, being driven by a coemployee, on the way back to their office from a funeral they had attended during an extended lunch hour. The funeral was for the father of a supervisor in the office and they…