Legal Opinion
TKESHELASHVILI v. State of NY
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 22, 2011No. 204PublishedCited by 12 opinions
POINTS OF COUNSEL
1Opinion of the Court
OPENTEON OF THE COURT
Read, J.
On a sunny late summer’s afternoon—the Sunday of Labor Day weekend in 2005—claimant Mikhail Tkeshelashvili and two male friends went on an outing to Colgate Lake, located in the Town of Jewett 1 in Greene County. Colgate Lake formed following construction in 1887 of Colgate Lake Dam, a log crib and stone masonry structure, to supply water power for a saw mill at a time when logging was a major industry in the area. 2 The length of the 15-foot-high dam was 275 feet, with two spillways. These spillways were roughly three feet below the dam’s crest, and the top of…
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