MORALES v. COUNTY OF NASSAU


256 A.D.2d 608 (1998)

683 N.Y.S.2d 127

BENITA N. MORALES, Respondent, v. COUNTY OF NASSAU, Appellant.

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

Decided December 31, 1998.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered as to both liability and damages, with costs to abide the event.

The plaintiff produced evidence which tended to establish that, shortly after entering her car on the evening of February 13, 1992, her husband, Teodoro Morales, who had been hiding in the back seat, brandished a knife and commanded her to drive home. The plaintiff then drove away and continued driving until, upon seeing a...

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