Legal Opinion
Nado v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided December 23, 1993PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
*179OPINION OF THE COURT
Donald J. Corbett, Jr., J.
The trial of this claim is bifurcated, and this opinion addresses only liability. Claimant Elvira Nado (hereinafter claimant, as the claim of Fred Nado is derivative) was injured on September 25, 1987, in the Town of Tuxedo (Town) in a fall from the curb in front of the post office on State Route 17. She was 68 years of age at that time.
This seemingly simple matter resolves several issues previously unresolved in reported cases. There was a hole in the curb estimated by claimant to some 20 inches long and some eight inches deep. The testimony…
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- Van Etten v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1981
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