Claims of Daigneault v. Board of Education

Appeal from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Special Term, Albany County as granted infant claimant’s motion for permission to file late notice of claim pursuant to subdivision 5 of section 50-e of the General Municipal Law. The infant claimant, when a few days past his 19th birthday and a student in high school, was injured by an automatic screwdriver in use in the school’s woodworking shop. Two periods of hospitalization followed, during the second of which an operation was performed for the removal of an eye. Neither the infant nor his father (his only living parent) was aware of…