Piotrowski v. Onteora Central School District

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Torraca, J.), entered October 18, 1988 in Ulster County, which denied petitioners’ application pursuant to General Municipal Law § 50-e (5) for leave to serve a late notice of claim.

On May 30, 1987 petitioner Henry Piotrowski (hereinafter petitioner), a State Trooper, was on the premises of a school owned by respondent when he allegedly injured himself by falling on a set of stairs. According to petitioner, the accident occurred in the course of a burglary investigation he was conducting and as he was being escorted down a poorly lit hallway by an…