WATSON v. STATE


77 A.D.2d 871 (1980)

Anthony Watson et al., Respondents, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 59054.)

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

August 4, 1980


Judgment reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and claim dismissed.

Claimant Anthony Watson (hereinafter claimant), a resident of the Goshen Center for Boys, was accidentally injured during an assault on one of his teachers, Mr. Clark W. Brown. Judge Hanifin, in the Court of Claims, apparently found that the claimant's action in striking Brown was proximately caused by Brown's use of obscene language toward...

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