COOPER v. STATE


89 A.D.2d 811 (1982)

Wendi-Gay E. Cooper et al., Respondents, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 61343.)

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

July 9, 1982


Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Memorandum:

Claimants, husband and wife, have recovered an award for damages sustained because of the State's negligence when the claimant wife, a student counselor from the State University at Buffalo, was working in the Attica Mental Health Unit and was raped by a prisoner client during a counseling session. On this appeal the State does not question the Court of Claims finding that claimant wife was free of fault...

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