WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK CITY HOUS. AUTH.


235 A.D.2d 263 (1997)

652 N.Y.S.2d 525

James A. Williams, an Infant, by His Father and Natural Guardian, James Williams, et al., Appellants, v. New York City Housing Authority, Respondent and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Utopia Children's Center, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent

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

January 16, 1997


Under the circumstances, as a matter of law, the movants owed no duty of care to the infant plaintiff, who was injured as a result of a third person's intentional, exceptional and unforeseeable act and, in any event, the intervening act of the third person constituted a superseding cause of plaintiff's injuries, which would relieve movants of any liability to plaintiff (Pulka v Edelman, 40 N.Y.2d 781; see, Elardo v Town...

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