PHIFER v. STATE


204 A.D.2d 612 (1994)

612 N.Y.S.2d 225

Vernice E. Phifer, as Administratrix of Robert S.L. Phifer, Deceased, Appellant, v. State of New York et al., Respondents. (Claim No. 83438.)

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

May 23, 1994


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The claimant failed to refute evidence provided by deposition testimony and police reports that the claimant's decedent, while intoxicated, stole a State-owned vehicle from the grounds of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center. The decedent crashed the vehicle into a tree shortly thereafter, and sustained fatal injuries.

We find that the court properly dismissed the claim based upon common-law negligence against the...

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