Legal Opinion
Morton v. State
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 8, 2010No. 103PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
Claimant Alan Morton was injured on the morning of April 3, 1997 while working for his employer, New York Water Service Corporation (the water company), a private company that furnishes water to portions of Nassau County. On that date, he was a member of a four-person work crew, including a foreman, dispatched with a backhoe to fix a break reported in a company-owned water main installed in 1928 beneath Carman Mill Road, Massapequa, New York, a part of the State of New York’s highway system (see Highway Law § 341 [29] [1]).
Upon arrival at the job site, the work…
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