BARTELS v. WESTCHESTER


76 A.D.2d 517 (1980)

John R. Bartels, as Guardian ad Litem of Jennifer Reid, an Infant, Respondent, v. County of Westchester et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants

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

July 7, 1980


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel S. Yasgur, County Attorney (Bein, Campbell & Cunnion, Anthony J. Caputo and Joseph J. Buderwitz, Jr., of counsel), for appellants.

Warren Whitfield Wells (Grenville T. Keogh of counsel), for respondent.

MOLLEN, P. J., TITONE and MANGANO, JJ., concur.


HOPKINS, J.

May a county be liable for injuries suffered by an infant remanded to the county's custody caused by the negligence of the county's employees in the placement and supervision of the infant in the care of persons who were not proper foster parents? We answer this question in the affirmative and thus affirm Trial Term which denied the appellants' motion to dismiss the amended complaint for failure to...

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