HELMAN v. COUNTY OF WARREN


67 N.Y.2d 799 (1986)

Lloyd Helman, Appellant, v. County of Warren, Respondent, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Canale and William V. Canale for appellant.

Jason L. Shaw for respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR. Taking no part: Judge SIMONS.


Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division (111 A.D.2d 560). Completely absent in this case was any "direct contact between agents of the municipality and the injured party", upon which a special duty could be predicated (Sorichetti v City of New York, 65 N.Y.2d 461, 469; see also, Yearwood v Town of Brighton, 64...

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