Chalmers v. County of Chemung

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Kuhnen, J.), entered October 3, 1983 in Chemung County, which granted claimants’ application pursuant to subdivision 5 of section 50-e of the General Municipal Law for leave to file a late notice of claim.

Claimants allege that on June 30, 1982, their daughter, Carlie Chalmers, who was then four years old, was sexually molested by one Terrance Laurey, who was in the legal custody of defendants. Claimants assert that defendants, having knowledge of Laurey’s history of similar misbehavior, negligently placed him in a foster home with…