Hovey v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which held that the State of New York was not guilty of negligence and that claimant’s injuries were the result of her own contributory negligence.

The accident occurred on December 2, 1937, at the Oneonta State Normal School. The claim is predicated on negligence of the State both in failing to provide light on a stairway in a school building and in providing a faulty handrail on the said stairway. Claimant was a regularly enrolled student. On the afternoon in question, between four and five o’clock, she attended a musical rehearsal of…