Glens Falls Insurance v. State

This is an application for leave to file a claim for damages sustained to the yacht of claimant’s subrogor. In the proposed claim it is alleged that on June 13, 1946, while said yacht was motionless in Lock No. 35, of the Barge Canal at Lockport, New York, a slab of cement or concrete fell from the *685wall of said lock onto the yacht, causing damage; and that said accident was caused solely as a result of the carelessness and negligence of the State in the maintenance of said wall, which at that time was owned, operated and maintained by the State of New York, Department of Public Works,…