Lee v. New York City Housing Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
This is an appeal from the denial of the New York City Housing Authority’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint of Mongo Lee, who, as a 15 year old in 1994, was injured when, while retrieving a ball errantly thrown from a baseball field owned, maintained and operated by the Housing Authority, he was struck by an automobile on an adjacent public roadway. The focus of our inquiry is on the concepts of duty and causation.
Plaintiff had played baseball on the field in question for several years prior to the accident. For all of that time, there had…
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