WIGGINS v. STATE


39 A.D.2d 786 (1972)

Brenda Wiggins, an Infant, by Sarah Wiggins, Her Guardian, et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. State of New York et al., Appellants-Respondents. (Claim No. 50075.)

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

May 4, 1972


Claimant, an 18-year-old resident in the Manhattan Rehabilitation Center for drug addicts, was injured when her leg went through a locked glass door leading from a corridor to the elevators on the fifth floor of the institution. A few minutes earlier another resident had discovered a fire near the lounge area on this corridor and, during the considerable general confusion in the effort of 30 to 40 residents to vacate the locked corridor, claimant was injured. There was no...

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