Burton v. State

Appeal from a judgment, entered July 2, 1981, upon a decision of the Court of Claims (Murray, J.). Claimant was injured upon the premises of the State University of New York at Albany at its downtown campus while proceeding to a classroom at Husted Hall from Richardson Hall. The two buildings are connected by means of a covered walkway known as a peristyle. As claimant approached the entrance of the peristyle, she was confronted with two closed wooden doors with release bars and, as she started to push the bar to open the door on her right, it was opened from the other side, and as she…