Legal Opinion
Chianese v. Meier
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 13, 2002PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Kaye.
The major issue on this appeal is whether apportionment of damages for personal injuries is permissible between a negligent landlord and the nonparty assailant who attacked the plaintiff-tenant (see CPLR 1602 [5]). We conclude that it is.
On May 14, 1992, plaintiff was attacked while entering her Greenwich Village apartment. When she arrived home from her teaching day at approximately 3:00 p.m., she noticed that the building’s front doors and interior security doors were open. She walked up to the third floor and saw a stranger, Eugene Adger, on the…
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