CHIKARA v. CITY OF NEW YORK


10 A.D.2d 862 (1960)

Romona Chikara, an Infant, by Her Guardian ad Litem, Dominick Chikara, Respondent, v. City of New York, Defendant, and Board of Education of the City of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 11, 1960


In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant respondent when she was struck in the eye with the blunt end of a compass by a classmate in school, the appeal is from so much of an order as grants such respondent leave to amend her notice of claim against appellant only. The infant respondent, 14 years old, was injured on April 26, 1956. Immediately thereafter she signed a paper — a report of the accident. On September 10, 1956 the infant...

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