POWELL v. CITY OF MOUNT VERNON


228 A.D.2d 572 (1996)

644 N.Y.S.2d 766

Matthew Powell, Respondent, v. City of Mount Vernon, Appellant, and Robert S. Black et al., Respondents. (Action No. 1.) Robert S. Black, Respondent, v. City of Mount Vernon, Appellant, and Mirna G. Powell, et al., Respondents. (Action No. 2.) Mirna Powell, Respondent, v. City of Mount Vernon, Appellant, and Brian Thompson, Respondent. (Action No. 3.)

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

June 17, 1996


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion of the defendant City of Mount Vernon is granted, and the complaints and any cross claims are dismissed insofar as asserted against it.

While fleeing from a pursuing police vehicle in the City of Mount Vernon, Brian Thompson drove his car through an intersection at high speed and collided into another vehicle, causing the death of one person and inflicting...

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