Williams v. State

On this motion for leave to file a notice of claim, the moving papers aver various negligent acts of the State of New York in the construction of an entrance and exit to and from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, adjoining claimant’s property at 176 Bayard Street, Brooklyn, N Y. These acts are said to have occurred during the period from October, 1952, to March 1, 1954. It is alleged that, while demolishing adjoining properties, the State damaged and moved the tin flashing along claimant’s roof; that its operations, including its pile-driving activities, were so negligently conducted as to…