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WILLIAMS v. STATE OF NEW YORK

18 N.Y.2d 481 (1966)

Frank Williams, as Guardian ad Litem of Christine Williams, an Infant, Appellant, et al., v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 43856.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 29, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Siff, Joseph Captain and Norman Roy Grutman for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Jeremiah Jochnowitz and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for respondent.

Judges FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Chief Judge DESMOND; Judge KEATING concurs in a separate opinion.

Chief Judge DESMOND.

We are to decide whether the infant claimant Christine Williams (the claim of her mother Lorene Williams is not before us now) has alleged a sufficient cause of action against the State of New York. The claim asserts negligence of the State in the care and custody of the infant's mother while the latter was a patient at a State hospital for the mentally ill "and more particularly in failing...

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