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Yonkers Contracting Co. v. State

74 N.Y.2d 682 Court N.Y. Decision date 1989-06-01 Docket Claim No. 75625 English

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Yonkers Contracting Company, Respondent, v State of New York, Appellant.
(Claim No. 75625.)
Argued April 26, 1989;
decided June 1, 1989
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APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Richard J. Dorsey, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for appellant.
Peter L. Agovino and Cornelia Mogor for respondent.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Order reversed, with costs, claimant’s motion to file a late notice of claim denied, and the certified question answered in the negative for the reasons stated in the dissenting memorandum of the late Justice Leonard H. Sandler at the Appellate Division ( 142 AD2d 518 , 520-525).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.