JARVIS v. NATION OF ISLAM


251 A.D.2d 116 (1998)

674 N.Y.S.2d 324

Wendy Jarvis et al., Respondents, v. Nation of Islam et al., Defendants, and National Black Theater Workshop, Incorporated, Appellant

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

June 16, 1998


Although plaintiffs' alleged injuries resulted from an assault, they are "not thereby relegated only to a cause of action for assault and battery. `A single act or default causing a single injury may constitute a breach of different duties and may give rise to causes of action based upon different grounds of liability and subject to different statutory periods of limitations.'" (Wimmer v Pratt Inst., 63...

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