MATTER OF WADE v. CITY OF NEW YORK


65 A.D.2d 534 (1978)

In the Matter of the Claim of Leroy Wade, Appellant, v. City of New York et al., Respondents

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

October 24, 1978


In May of 1977, petitioner was sentenced to one-year imprisonment at Riker's Island Correctional Center. He was assigned to kitchen work in prison, and, on September 7, 1977, he slipped on the kitchen floor and suffered multiple fractures of the left knee. On the same day petitioner was admitted to Bellevue Hospital, where he remained until October 3, 1977. On October 3 he was transferred to the hospital wing of Riker's Island, where...

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