Lindsay v. Lockwood

OPINION OF THE COURT

Andrew V. Siracuse, J.

Plaintiff Cathleen Lindsay was injured during a brief altercation at her apartment at or following a party she held on the night of January 31, 1992. She sued Ronald Lockwood, who was tried and acquitted of assault in connection with the incident, and three friends of Lockwood’s who had come with him to the apartment, alleging in her original complaint that all four "negligently and recklessly engage[d] in [a] concerted course of conduct and[/]or joint venture”. Although the plaintiff apparently identified defendant Lockwood as her assailant at the…