GILCHRIST v. CITY OF TROY


67 N.Y.2d 1034 (1986)

Barbara Gilchrist, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian of John Gilchrist, an Infant, Appellant, v. City of Troy, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. J. Gregory Crozier et al., Doing Business as Crozier, Kearns, Philippi, Architects, Third-Party Defendants-Respondents, et al., Third-Party Defendant. (And a Fourth-Party Action.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence H. Long for appellant.

Donald C. Bowes, Corporation Counsel (Donald J. Shanley of counsel), for City of Troy, respondent.

Michelle I. Casserly for J. Gregory Crozier and others, respondents.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiff's nine-year-old son was struck in the face by a hockey puck while standing along the dasher boards during a hockey game at defendant's rink. The rink was enclosed with a dasher board three and one-half feet high with a three-foot section of plexiglass mounted above the boards at both ends. The plexiglass extended from the blue...

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