ACOSTA v. ROACH


12 Misc.2d 494 (1958)

Pedro Acosta, as Administrator of The Estate of Andelmo Aponte, Plaintiff, v. Helen I. Roach et al., Defendants. Helen I. Roach, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Great American Indemnity Company of New York, Third-Party Defendant.

Supreme Court, Special and Trial Term, New York County.

February 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Dambroff for plaintiff.

Martin, Wiltshire, Cambridge & Kerr for third-party plaintiff.

Samuel Gottesman for third-party defendant.


IRVING H. SAYPOL, J.

Mrs. Roach was the owner of a building, De Palo was her superintendent and Aponte was a tenant. On December 17, 1955, De Palo got into a fracas with Aponte in the latter's apartment about payment of rent and shot and killed him. Mrs. Roach learned of this the following morning from De Palo's daughter. She followed the ensuing prosecution, attending at court until De Palo's conviction and sentence sometime in June or July, 1956. Her...

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