Cairl v. County of Westchester

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for psychological malpractice and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Coppola, J.), dated December 14, 1987, which, after a hearing, granted the plaintiffs’ motion for leave to file a late notice of claim.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In view of the uncontradicted testimony of the injured plaintiff’s psychiatrist, that from the time her cause of action accrued until she filed her notice of claim she suffered from paranoid…