CURTISS v. COUNTY OF CHEMUNG


78 A.D.2d 908 (1980)

Leland A. Curtiss, as Administrator of The Estate of Thomas E. Curtiss, Deceased, Respondent-Appellant, v. County of Chemung, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant-Respondent. Raymond Diesel et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents. (And Two Other Actions.)

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

November 6, 1980


On January 19, 1976, the plaintiff Curtiss' intestate, aged 17, was killed and the plaintiffs Madden, aged 15, and Diesel, aged 17, were injured, when a shed located on a farm owned by the defendant county collapsed while they were inside. A fourth boy named Ahrens escaped safely. When the farm was obtained by the county in 1968, the other buildings thereon were demolished; the shed was left standing, however, since an inspection...

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