Staples v. Sisson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Spain, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Benson, J.), entered April 19, 1999 in Albany County, upon a dismissal of the complaint at the close of plaintiffs case.
During the investigation of a house fire in July 1992, the bodies of Alice M. Staples and Clyde E. Sisson were discovered *780in a bedroom where the fire did the most damage. It was subsequently determined that Staples died as the result of a .22-caliber gunshot wound to the head and that Sisson died as the result of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The cause of the fire never was determined. Plaintiff, as…
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