Legal Opinion
McNulty v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 13, 2003PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Smith, J.
In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether defendant doctors owed a duty of care to plaintiff, a friend of a woman they treated for infectious meningitis who subsequently contracted the disease, based on the doctors’ alleged negative answer to plaintiffs question whether she needed treatment after being in close contact with her friend. We find that the duty the doctors owed their patient did not extend to plaintiff.
In the early morning hours of December 24, 1989, plaintiff Mary Ann McNulty was awakened by a telephone call from Louis Eschevaria, the boyfriend…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Tobin v. GrossmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
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- Purdy v. Public AdministratorNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- Albala v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Tenuto v. Lederle Laboratories, Division of American Cyanamid Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1997
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