Dara v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims entered on a decision holding the State liable for the injuries sustained by the infant claimant.

On the morning of June 8, 1968 the infant claimant, then 6 years old, and two companions bicycled from their homes approximately four tenths of a mile to a drainage area, which included a catch basin and a discharge basin, within the right of way of the Long Island Expressway. Gaining entrance through an opening in a chain link fence placed around the site, the claimant and her companions walked their bicycles down to the discharge basin and…