Legal Opinion
Acosta v. Roach
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 21, 1958PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIrving H. Saypol, J.
Mrs. Roach was the owner of a building, De Palo was her superintendent and Aponte was a tenant. On December 17, 1955, De Palo got into a fracas with Aponte in the latter’s apartment about payment of rent and shot and killed him. Mrs. Roach learned of this the following morning from De Palo’s daughter. She followed the ensuing prosecution, attending at court until De Palo’s conviction and sentence sometime in June or July, 1956. Her son who managed her business and affairs spoke to her insurance broker’s son in March, 1956, showing the latter a newspaper story of the incident which, according…
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