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Helman v. County of Warren

67 N.Y.2d 799 Court N.Y. Decision date 1986-03-20 English

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p. 799
Lloyd Helman, Appellant, v County of Warren, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
Argued February 7, 1986;
decided March 20, 1986
p. 801
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Jeffrey Canale and William V Canale for appellant.
Jason L. Shaw for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division ( 111 AD2d 560 ). Completely absent in this case was any “direct contact between agents of the municipality and the injured party”, upon which a special duty could be predicated (Sorichetti v City of New York, 65 NY2d 461 , 469; see also, Yearwood v Town of Brighton, 64 NY2d 667 ).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Meyer, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr. Taking no part: Judge Simons.

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