OJA v. GRAND CHAPTER OF THETA CHI FRATERNITY, INC.


257 A.D.2d 924 (1999)

684 N.Y.S.2d 344

SHAMBHU OJA, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of BINAYA OJA, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. GRAND CHAPTER OF THETA CHI FRATERNITY, INC., et al., Defendants, and DANIEL KOEHLER et al., Appellants.

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

Decided January 28, 1999.


Yesawich Jr., J.

The facts underlying this action have been previously set forth in a prior appeal (255 A.D.2d 781). Briefly, decedent, a 17-year-old college freshman who had been invited to pledge Delta Sigma Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity (hereinafter the fraternity), died after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol during a hazing ritual. His parents commenced this action (on decedent's behalf, as well as in their individual...

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