Carol Artibee v. Home Place Corporation

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. ----------------------------------------------------------------- No. 5 Carol Artibee et al., Appellants, v. Home Place Corporation, Respondent. Robert H. Coughlin, Jr., for appellants. Thomas J. Johnson, for respondent. Frederick A. Brodie, for amicus curiae State of New York. STEIN, J.: This appeal presents us with the question of whether the factfinder in Supreme Court may apportion fault to the State under CPLR 1601 (1) when a plaintiff claims that both the State and a private party are liable…