Yonkers Contracting Company v. State of New York

Full title: YONKERS CONTRACTING COMPANY, Respondent, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, Appellant…

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Jun 1, 1989

74 N.Y.2d 682 (N.Y. 1989)

543 N.Y.S.2d 384

541 N.E.2d 413

Opinion

Argued April 26, 1989

Decided June 1, 1989

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, Louis C. Benza, J.

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.

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 A.D.2d 518, 520-525).

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA.