Legal Opinion

Johnson v. State

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 18, 1993No. Claim No. 77418Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Court of Claims (Edgar C. NeMoyer, J., based upon a trial had before Adolph C. Orlando, J.), entered on or about August 7, 1992, after trial, dismissing on the merits, a personal injury claim against defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly concluded that claimant has not proved by a fair preponderance of the evidence that defendant was negligent in failing to prevent claimant from jumping out of a third floor window at the Bronx Psychiatric Center ("Center”). Although an admissions update report prepared on the day of the incident described claimant as…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sciarabba v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992

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