SHOEMAKER v. STATE OF N. Y.


54 Misc.2d 1042 (1967)

Montgomery J. Shoemaker, as Limited Administrator of The Estate of Sarah Shoemaker, Deceased, Claimant, v. State of New York, Defendant. (Claim No. 45792.)

Court of Claims.

October 26, 1967


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hornburg, Diggs & Dwyer (Joseph C. Dwyer of counsel), for claimant. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Ralph Jackson of counsel), for defendant.


RICHARD S. HELLER, J.

On October 20, 1964, at approximately 10:00 A.M., a telephone call was received at the Gowanda State Hospital reporting that an elderly woman was walking along the middle of U. S. Route 62, a short distance north of the Village of Gowanda. She was said to have been directing or disrupting traffic; and apparently, her erratic behaviour led the informant to assume that she might be a patient...

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