Blassman v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which dismissed the claim of the appellant herein. Appellant, an incompetent, was injured when he cut the little finger of his right hand while a patient at the Rockland State Hospital. He was engaged in aiding an attendant in lifting a garbage can when he scratched his finger. Subsequently the wound became infected and the claimant has been deprived of the use of the .finger ever since. Testimony before the Court of Claims indicates the injury will be permanent unless a successful surgical operation is effected, and that even then…