Bartels v. County of Westchester
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Hopkins, J.
May a county be liable for injuries suffered by an infant remanded to the county’s custody caused by the negligence of the county’s employees in the placement and supervision of the infant in the care of persons who were not proper foster parents? We answer this question in the affirmative and thus affirm Trial Term which denied the appellants’ motion to dismiss the amended complaint for failure to state a cause of action.
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The infant plaintiff was born on October 18, 1971. This action was commenced in August, 1974.
The amended complaint, pieced out by the bill of…
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