Legal Opinion
Schuster v. City of New York
New York Supreme Court
Decided September 18, 1959PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBenjamin Brenner, J.
Motion by plaintiff for an order directing examination of defendant before trial by various members of the Police Department of the City of New York.
The action is in negligence. There are four causes of action for wrongful death and for conscious pain and suffering, contained in the complaint, the sufficiency of which has been sustained by a divided court in the Court of Appeals (Schuster v. City of New York, 5 N Y 2d 75). In general, the purport of the complaint is that the city’s Police Department failed to furnish protection to the decedent and falsely represented the absence of danger to…
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