Legal Opinion
Crosland v. New York City Transit Authority
New York Court of Appeals
Decided September 11, 1986PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
The question presented is whether a public carrier whose employees allegedly stood by and did nothing while one of its passengers was beaten to death by hoodlums should be immune from all civil liability. We hold that it should not, and thus affirm the order appealed from and answer the question certified in the affirmative.
Amplified by affidavits and exhibits in the record, the complaint alleged in pertinent part that after attending a talent show at the High School of Music and Art, at which they were students, Steven Crosland, Jr., and several friends boarded the…
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