Legal Opinion
Grouchulski v. New York
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided January 4, 1980No. 79-CV-613PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FOLEY, District Judge.
MEMORANDUM-DECISION and ORDER
By memorandum-decision and order dated September 17, 1979, I dismissed the pro se complaint based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 of this plaintiff, an inmate of Auburn Correctional Facility. As I read the claim of the plaintiff, and so described it in my memorandum, the plaintiff while working on a wood machine at the prison was injured when a piece of wood was ejected by the machine and imbedded into his thigh. The claim seemed to me to be one of pure negligence, and I decided that such a claim based upon negligence on its face did not present a viable…
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