TELFAIR v. STATE OF NEW YORK


87 A.D.2d 610 (1982)

Luther Telfair, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 62549.)

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

March 15, 1982


Judgment reversed, on the law, with costs, and case remitted to the Court of Claims for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

The claimant, while a prisoner at the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility, injured his wrist when he slipped and fell while mopping water in his residential cottage. The water had dripped from a faulty pipe and had accumulated in the kitchen area. Prison doctors initially failed to diagnose a fracture in the claimant's wrist and, thereafter...

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